By Rhett Ayers Butler Most people would have walked past the flower. Even fewer would have recognized the insect on it. But ...

While American beekeepers search for solutions, another, potentially worse threat looms: Tropilaelaps mites, which also hail ...

The way in which honey bees pollinate can also create problems for native plant ecosystems. That’s because honey bees often ...

The problem: While honey bees are extremely important for agricultural activity — like growing food — they’re also pollen ...

White-tailed bumblebee foraging on sea holly. Bumblebees are critical pollinators, and many species are in decline — but we don’t fully understand why. Now scientists have suggested that a major ...

Bumblebees do not make honey: they do not need to, for a colony lasts but one long summer. Only the fattest hibernating ...