Did you know that the honey bee has been around for millions of years and is the only insect that produces food eaten by man? I just learned that honey is the only food that includes all the ...

image: While many scientists are focused on the decline of honey bees, relatively few study bumble bees. The good news is that a new study provides an estimate on bumble bee population and ...

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

In the first long-term, community-level field study of wild bumble bee nutrition, a team of ecologists led by Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden discovered that wild bees aren't ...

Bumble bee expert Dr. Jeffrey Lozier of the University of Alabama. (UA photo) When reporting on Dr. Jeffrey Lozier, the University of Alabama's bumble bee expert, it's best to get the No. 1 myth out ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Researchers have figured out which plant ...

Source: Ryan Hodnett, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The task: find an object that you are visually familiar with, such as your keys, by rummaging around with your ...

When spelling, if I was close enough to find the word, I’ve always gone by the dictionary. In my correspondence with entomologists, like a good boy, I always used Webster’s “bumblebee,” “honeybee” and ...

It’s spring again ... time for bees to pollinate flowers. Although bee populations have leveled off during the past few years, we’re still at a nadir historically. In the 1940s, there were 6 million ...

While many scientists are focused on the decline of honey bees, relatively few study bumble bees. The good news is that a new study provides an estimate on bumble bee population and distributions ...