When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

Fascinating up-close footage showing how honey bees go about killing a queen bee has been scaring up a storm on social media. Earlier this month, Florida beekeeper Elisha Bixler shared a dramatic ...

Bees swarm the queen to protect her and start a new, more sustainable colony capable of producing the next generation of bees.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – An Oakland beekeeper is frustrated after someone stole a colony of bees and its queen on Saturday. The theft happened minutes before she was hosting a honey-tasting event for ...

North Carolina State University researcher Alison McAfee prepares queen cells to go into honey bee mating colonies. Credit: Alison McAfee As global honey bee decline continues through yet another ...

The molecular mechanisms driving honey bee fate have been revealed. Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens or ...

A few years ago, when Erika Thompson was living in Austin, she came across a dove languishing on the sidewalk. She scooped the dove up, took him home, and nursed him back to health. Thompson hoped to ...

Beekeeper Leigh-Kathryn Bonner of Bee Downtown was on campus at The Cardinal at North Hills to talk with residents, and her reception was sweeter than honey. Find out more and learn how to submit your ...