Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat. However, bees aren’t too keen on invaders, and they have ways of dealing with ...

As tiny insects, honey bees are consistently underestimated. These little guys are far more complex than most people realize.

When honey bees find a good source of food, they return to their hive and perform a waggle dance. It consists of a series of movements that communicate the direction and distance to nectar, pollen or ...

A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioral biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the flight behavior of honey bees. Using a drone, the researchers tracked honey ...

BINNABARI, India (AP) — The beekeepers rise early. They’ve come a long way to spend the winter months in the electric yellow mustard fields of Assam, and they have to make the trip worth it. At dawn, ...

A routine home inspection led to a surprising discovery after a couple learned they had been sharing their house with tens of thousands of honeybees. Just before freezing temperatures arrived, a ...

The world's worst honey bee parasite is genetically mutating, making it resistant to common treatments used to save hives.