Yes, honey bees can sting but it comes at a high cost. When a honey bee stings a human or animal, its barbed stinger stays in its victim, and the bee eventually dies as a result. Remove the ...

Sure, you know that bees pollinate our crops and give us honey. But there's so much more to these buzzing insects than that. 1. Bee stings have some health benefits.

It’s spring again ... time for bees to pollinate flowers. Although bee populations have leveled off during the past few years, we’re still at a nadir historically. In the 1940s, there were 6 ...

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

The honey shelves at the supermarket astonish me now that I keep bees. To make one pound of honey, a colony has to fly 55,000 miles, according to the National Honey Board .

Commercial beekeepers often let their bees forage in natural ecosystems when the insects are not working on a farm, Cane said. In Utah, where he’s based, managed honey bee apiaries are sometimes ...

Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California ...

Most of the bees in Arizona are Africanized "killer" bees. Here's what happens if you get stung by a killer bee and how to ...

Honey bees, it turns out, are a commercially managed animal — essentially livestock, like cows — and large beekeeping operations are remarkably adept at replacing colonies that die.