The accusations you may have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed by evidence. Entomologists explain that there are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Africanized honey bees, better known as killer bees, aren’t your garden-variety buzzers. They play a crucial role as pollinators ...

It was three in the afternoon and over 30 degrees C, yet despite the heat there was not a drop of sweat on my body. The air was so dry that any perspiration was sucked from my pores before I even felt ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Thousands of bee enthusiasts visited the Jacksonville Fairgrounds Sunday to learn all about bees and beekeeping at the Honey Bee Festival. After 26 years of working as a letter ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

Africanized "killer" bees are a hybrid species known for aggressively defending their hives. Some 90%-100% of wild honey bee colonies in Arizona are Africanized. Killer bee attacks in Arizona have ...

Sometimes it is worthwhile to look at the details, to study aspects that seem to be uninteresting or were previously ignored, and see noteworthy phenomena come to light. Researchers showed that male ...

Here's what to do if a bee's nest is too close to your home.

We study bees and other vital pollinators, and we can tell you that there are good reasons to love all the bees. In fact, ...