Erika Thompson talks with PEOPLE about her love of bees and her personal collection of hives ...

Africanized honey bees are a hybrid species that originated in Brazil and have spread to 13 southern and southwestern U.S.

A viral video shows hundreds of Africanized honey bees packed inside an abandoned metal pipe in Arizona, all locked in ...

They might all be important to our planet's ecosystem, but not all bees look or act the same. Here are some key differences between bumble and honey bees.

There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...

A new study by University of Maryland entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s. When ...

From extreme heat to drought, climate change is disrupting honey bee health and food sources in the Southeast.

Stewart and Lynda Resnick’s Wonderful Co. is among a handful of honey bee farms responsible for the pollination of a third of Americans’ food. But the real buzz is how they rent them out. Thousands of ...

This mason jar hack makes it easy for beekeepers to watch their favorite pollinators in action, and it also makes collecting ...

This gorgeous and noteworthy book provides a very different view of honey bees and how they live in the wild and offers important lessons for saving the world’s managed bee colonies This interesting ...