Lifting up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you're getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a ...

DWV is a serious disease that is transmitted by varroa mites and affects different insects. In honey bees, the virus causes wing deformities, shortened abdomens, discoloration, and neurological or ...

Roughly 300,000 robot hives are in use across the U.S., scattered across fields of almond, canola, pistachios and other crops ...

Highly aggressive Africanized honey bees, the so-called "killer bees," are moving north and spreading as climate change ...

Bees make up the largest portion of pollinator species in North America and are important to the pollination of food crops as ...

Africanized honey bees, often called "killer bees," are now in 13 states, including Mississippi. Know where to find them, how ...

Lisa Wintrode, a member of The Garden Club of Danville, stands at a pollinator garden planted by Danville Master Gardeners at the Ruby B. Archie Public Library. The city of Danvil ...

Scientists say the bees' temperament is to ward off predators. But unsuspecting humans will find them to be aggressive, ...

The US has observed a startling uptick in the number of bee colonies dying off since the mid-2000s. Robotic hives are helping cut down losses as they are able to collect data and analyse the health of ...

Penn State scientists uncover how parent genes compete to decide if a honey bee larva becomes a queen or a worker.

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.