Washington's pollinators are critical to our state’s agriculture and can sometimes be used to help degraded ecosystems.

Bees choreograph their twists and turns with cues about the direction, distance and even the deliciousness of flowers around the hive. Now a new study in the journal Science shows that honey bees ...

How is honey made? Unlike many other bees, honeybee species don't hibernate in winter. Instead, they stay active in their hives. During the coldest months, honeybees cluster together to keep warm ...

With a sting that packs a punch, would any creature dare to eat a bee? You would be surprised to know that, from birds to bugs, there are a lot of animals that rely on bees as a protein-filled snack.

But then it went step further: It hired a beekeeper to install four honey bee hives on the roof. “Keeping wild animals is a great way to show that we have a connection to nature,” said the ...

The truck was hauling 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives when it overturned in a rural part of Whatcom County, just north of Seattle near the Canadian border, around 4 a.m. Friday, according to the ...

Australia’s native bees are key to pollination and ecosystem balance. Some outperform honey bees in certain roles.

May is Honeybee Awareness Month, and one Chicago area organization is doing its part to generate some buzz for our fuzzy ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...

Fire in Mustang Ridge devastates nonprofit bee rescue Multiple hives were lost ... CEO of the American Honey Bee Protection Agency (AHBPA). "My neighbor right down the street, he called me ...

A beekeeper who came to take down the hive told the couple he believed it might have been an existing honey bee hive that was taken over by killer bees. Known as usurpation, Africanized honey bees ...

hive and bee installations, disease prevention and treatment, as well as honey harvesting and extraction. “If I was going to do it, I wanted to do it in a way that was going to be safe for everybody, ...