Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

A monitoring system devised by the University of Cordoba ascertains the flowering stages of each hive, with high precision, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A honeybee hive was removed from the walls of a home. Honey bees became quite a nuisance for a homeowner in Pittsburgh, who had thousands of bees living in ...

Monitoring honey bee hives by hand is passé. The buzz these days is about high-tech sensors inside hives. They help commercial beekeepers keep colonies healthy and allow bees to keep doing their jobs ...

William Robson said varroa mites can shorten the lives of queen bees to just 18 months A beekeeper has said it is more difficult to keep his hives alive because of the growing threat of deadly ...

Apiculture—the technical term for beekeeping—is a major industry across the state of North Carolina. Over 80 out of the 100 ...

Individually coded honey bee workers and queen interact inside monitored colony. Credit: Adam G. Dolezal The coronavirus epidemic has certainly caused many humans to change behavior, like increasing ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

Honey bees are twice as likely to let in a trespassing insect from another hive if that insect is infected with a deadly virus, according to new research. Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) is a ...

Sweet Harvest Foods' achievement in becoming the single largest domestic beekeeper marks a pivotal moment for U.S.