For Roth, it’s crucial to protect both honey bees — like the ones in his rooftop hives — and wild species. His organization ...

The second half of May is peak season for one of the Vineyard’s most interesting bees, Colletes thoracicus, sometimes called ...

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

Borders between farmers' fields, for example, are critical to wild bees, which nest primarily on or in the ground among dried leaves, stalks and sticks. One species, the eastern snail shell mason ...

These man-made boxes, designed to facilitate pollination and honey production in an era before animal welfare was considered, are the hives in which scientists study honey bees. However, these boxes ...

An international research project has been launched to uncover how wild honey bee colonies survive and thrive in the wild ...