Honey bees play a pivotal role in both global agriculture and ecosystem health, and their associated microbial communities have emerged as critical determinants of bee well‐being. The honey bee ...

Bee-HERO — Sacred Heart University’s Bee Health and Ecology Objective program — was awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will allow six undergraduate students to ...

Located just off campus near the South Quad on Lincoln Avenue sits the Robinson Bee Research Facility. Here, researchers silently work with and raise honey bee colonies, out of sight of the University ...

Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary enthusiasts, native species are finally getting the buzz they deserve By Susan ...

On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...

Before Samuel Ramsey became the world’s foremost expert on bees — and an assistant professor of ecology, entomology and evolutionary biology at CU Boulder — he was just another kid afraid of bugs. But ...

After hearing whispering and outcries from commercial beekeepers about their colonies dying sporadically and mysteriously, Project Apis m. — a leading organization in the world of honeybees — ...

After hearing whispering and outcries from commercial beekeepers about their colonies dying sporadically and mysteriously, Project Apis m. — a leading organization in the world of honey bees — ...

European honey bees are the most common bee species used to produce honey globally. They have larger colonies compared to other bee species, produce more honey, are less aggressive, and excellent ...

Research by the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and other bee experts released on June 16 confirmed a total number of bee species in the state is 508.

A specimen of Franklin's bumblebee photographed by Robin Thorp. The rare bee, now thought to be extinct, was limited to a few counties in northern California and southern Oregon. A study of DNA from ...