The honey bee has held a special place in vision research. It is one of the best-studied insects, and much of what scientists ...

My uncle’s kept bees for 19 years and still gets asked, at every single family dinner, why he bothers with something that ...

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are widely known as essential pollinators, but researchers using a "One Health" approach have ...

Some of the most impressive visual performances measured in a new study came from rarely studied, solitary species.

When bees link their legs together to form living chains across open space, they are doing something far more purposeful than ...

Honey bees pick up traces of environmental stress as they forage, making their health a potential early warning system for ecosystem trouble.

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 ...

The first question everyone wants to know is: how? “I’m surprised it took you so long to ask,” Brandon Hopkins says with a laugh. The 35-year-old entomologist is preparing samples to be sent to the ...

The extreme weather that has battered much of the U.S. in 2022 doesn’t just affect humans. Heat waves, wildfires, droughts and storms also threaten many wild species — including some that already face ...

Boulder started a new bee bio-monitoring project to learn more about the environment from a regional to an individual level.