Mason bees don't live in hives and they don't make honey. There is no queen bee and there are no worker bees. "All females are queens," says Hunter. Female mason bees lay their eggs in cavities or ...

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more ...

An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

Among other applications, it promises to be groundbreaking as a way to treat infections of bees by a commercially important parasitic pest, Varroa destructor. Pictures of honeybees ... where freshly ...

Janice shared her wealth of knowledge about the inner workings of the hive. In the observation hive, we observed some of the 4 stages of the life of a honey bee: egg, larvae, pupa, adult. 4-Hers ...

Jackie Nunnery Like many farmers this time of year, Todd Trotte is in the process of evaluating how well his farm made it through the winter. For beekeepers like Trotte, that means an early spring ...

To learn more about their importance to their environment, WTAJ visited a honey farm in Blair County and ... Life stages of the bees as the egg is laid. And then it turns into a larva and then into ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has conditionally licensed an oral vaccine to protect honey ... larvae bacteria and works by getting the queen bee, which lays the eggs, to ingest it.

Scientists have unveiled a new food source designed to sustain honey bee colonies indefinitely without natural pollen.

There is a growing concern about a massive honey bee die-off in the United States, and the sting might not spare Southwest ...