Garden bees ... species, in addition to the European honeybee, and many are in decline. Most native bees are solitary, individually nesting in tunnels rather than forming hives and making honey.

Chief among these principles is that species-specific characteristics can exist because members of different species do not freely produce fertile hybrids. The history of the nomencalture of ...

In my last column, I confidently predicted both the species and the approximate timing of my first bee sighting of the season ...

Due to her privileged DNA, the larger and more fertile queen bee outlives the workers. She lives an average of 1 to 2 years.

They don’t congregate in hives or make honey. Aside from bumblebees, most native bees live ... guides to identify the tiny, often subtle features that distinguish species. Basic information ...

Honey bees are dying at alarming rates across the United States. Beekeepers in the United States lost more than 55 percent of managed colonies last year. A new study supports a novel method for ...

The team, including Hungerford and Zawawi — of the Universiti Putra Malaysia in Serdang — collected honey samples from two stingless bee species ... Australia, to identify any genes and ...