Biologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute investigated a flexible social bee species, which helps shed light ...

A quiet neighborhood gardening season turned into an unexpected dispute after one homeowner introduced a large above ground ...

Strict regulations have prevented continental U.S. beekeepers from participating in the lucrative organic honey market, but new research finds that bees' actual habits make certain rules too extreme.

Alaska is home to more than a hundred species of native bees, from familiar bumblebees to tiny solitary bees that nest in the ground or in hollow stems. These insects pollinate wi ...

A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...