The swarming season for honeybees in South Africa has begun. The summer months and spring are usually when bees reproduce and buzz around looking for new places to build beehives. This often happens ...

Photo shows a gentle Africanized queen (center right) from Puerto Rico, traversing an empty comb with her offspring. (Manuel A. Giannoni Guzmán / Vanderbilt University) (CN) — Aggression is a strong ...

Delivering a gentle automated tap to the outside of a hive and recording the honeybees’ collective response can give an indication of the colony's health without having to look inside, new research ...

Anyone who has kept honeybees will tell you that for all that is known about this plucky insect, there is much more shrouded in mystery. The biggest, and most worrying, puzzle these past two years has ...