By tagging the bees, Mr. McCarthy, along with his adviser Rachael Winfree, an ecologist at Rutgers, is trying to see how easily these insects can move between habitat patches, and how far.

(See "Intimate Portraits of Bees" for more of Droege's bee pictures ... Marsh Wildlife Preserve in Alexandria, Virginia, using mesh, tentlike structures called Malaise traps.

"Honey bees don't want to sting you, and they especially don't want to sting you in their swarm state. If you walk out into your backyard and you see that, you're probably going to freak out if ...

When a bee flies into your garden, it doesn’t see what you and I see. Flowers leap out from much darker-looking leafy backgrounds, and they have ultraviolet-reflecting landing strips that show ...

Beehives installed on the property in May 2020 have since become a huge draw for tenants and a place where they can not only see bees at work, but enjoy the fruits of their labor, thanks to the ...

Also, if you were a bee, you couldn’t see red, but you would see ultraviolet light humans can’t see, so you’d be able to detect ultraviolet flower colors. Bees actually have five eyes ...

The heatwave is causing huge swarms of bees across the UK, ITV News Reporter Amy Welch meets keepers to find out why Britain is to see a spike in bee swarms this summer, keepers have warned.