Did you know Pollinator Week begins June 17, and runs through Sunday, June 23? To celebrate, let’s look at some of our important pollinators. First, a botany review: Pollination occurs when pollen is ...

Heads up, Florida. Along with alligators, Burmese pythons and Asian needle ants, now killer bees are spreading across the state — and the country — as average temperatures rise. Africanized honey bees ...

Spring has finally arrived in the U.S., bringing its bright spectacle of budding trees and migrating birds, along with more subtle but equally important changes—among them, the first emergence of ...

On Monday, May 20, we celebrate bees. But bees are still threatened by human activity and land development, and since nearly 90% of the world's flowering plant species depend at least partly on animal ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, according to researchers who analyzed seasonal trends of parasite and virus transmission in bees. Honey bees may ...