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 ...

A new paper shows how the lifespan of the adult honeybee appears to have shrunk by nearly 50% in the past 50 years. The European Red List for Bees suggests nearly one in ten species of wild bees are ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs. The ...

The maternal care of offspring is one of the behavioral drivers that has led some bee species to have an ever-expanding social life over the history of evolution, new research out of York University ...

In the documentary More Than Honey, Swiss director Markus Imhoof offers an extreme close-up of the life of bees. He films bees at a stunning micro level as they mate mid-air, emerge from cocoons and ...

When we think about bees, the image that often comes to mind is the iconic honeybee, bringing you the oh-so-sweet honey that you use to flavor your tea or dab on your toast. But there are more than 20 ...

Margarita Lopez-Uribe reveals how squash bees evolved to thrive on our modern farms. Pollination gets personal when Shane meets Margarita Lopez-Uribe, an entomologist who studies squash bees — a wild, ...

A new study by entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s. As the first study to show an ...