They’re busy, they’re buzzing, and sometimes belligerent. We’re flexing our “hive mind” muscles and flying into the world of bees. * The importance of these little insects -- some thousands of species ...

At last, announced the persistent U.S. Department of Agriculture last week, there is a quick, sure method of hybridizing bees. Chief trouble with bees as breeding material is their system of mating.

Tiny honeybees possess remarkable mathematical skills. Scientists have proven these insects can count and compare numbers.

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 21, 2025) The presence of Varroa mites in combination with the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid increases the risk of bee mortality and disrupts the larval gut ...

Social insects like bees demonstrate a remarkable range of behaviors, from working together to build structurally complex nests (complete with built-in climate control) to the pragmatic division of ...