I had hiked to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain to enjoy the day and perhaps get some photos. I was sitting there, gazing at the divide, when a noisy bee flew up and hovered at my eye level, just 3 feet ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California scientists say they have found a possible explanation for a honey bee die-off that has decimated hives around the world: A parasitic fly that hijacks the bees ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...

Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown. Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have ...

Honey bee colonies around the United States are in decline, threatened by several different diseases and parasites. John Hafernik, a professor of biology at San Francisco State University, describes ...

When I first saw the Bead Bee, I thought it was a joke. The owner of this strange-looking creature was a little miffed at my reaction and claimed that funny as it looked, it was his "go to" fly when ...

Andony Melathopoulos, a pollinator specialist at Oregon State University, holds a metallic sweat bee bumblebee from his collection. By Jane Arterberry and Jubilee Likayi ­ Bumblebees buzz around a ...

Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown. In both cases warmer flight muscles likely speed ...