Give your recycling bin a break and give bees a place to stay. This clever little DIY can attract pollinators while giving everyday waste a useful second life.

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

Fall has a way of making people want to slow down, and it turns out the garden is one of the best places to actually do it. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Honey bee colony loss across the United States over the last five years is primarily related to the presence of parasitic mites, nearby pesticides, and extreme weather events as well as challenges ...