honey bees

Attacks by giant hornets, relatives of murder hornets, on honeybee hives are absolutely horrifying. Worker hornets…

Finally, some good news this year.

Entomologists in Washington have confirmed the existence of a nest of Asian giant hornets, more fondly known as…

Washington State officials are frantically searching for a colony of Asian giant hornets—also known as murder…

A new study suggests honeybees inherently understand the rudiments of addition and subtraction, a finding that…

Humans have relegated insects to the lower levels of the cognitive totem pole, but scientists are increasingly…

We all know that bees are dying at a globally alarming rate, and that our rampant use of pesticides is part of the…

Beekeepers from China’s Hubei province have attached over 700 beehives to the face of a steep cliff in the…

A senior reserves officer was walking through England’s Northamptonshire’s Pitsford Water Nature Reserve when she…

Bees are extremely important to the way we live. One out of every 3 meals we eat is made possible because of bees…

The world of Westeros has nothing on a honey bee hive. It turns out in order to gain the monarchy, a queen bee has…

Twice each year, the Gurung tribespeople of Central Nepal risk their lives collecting wild honey from the world's…

Darwin's idea of natural selection is simple. Good mutations are passed on, because the animals who have them will…

When it comes to greeting their fellow insects, honeybees preferentially use their right antennae. In fact, without…

Every once in a while, there's news which reminds us that we're living in the age of accelerating change. This is…

Researchers at Arizona State University have successfully reversed brain aging in honeybees, by giving them…

For those who have always wondered exactly why honeybees die after stinging an animal, this photograph spells it out…

We've suspected for quite some time now that cutting-edge insecticides were responsible for the catastrophic hive…

When it comes time for honeybee swarm to split off from their mother colony and find a new place to live, something…

Many people don't think that the collapse of bee populations is as big a mystery as it's made out to be. An EPA…