Bees are fantastic pollinators. Without them, ecosystems would not thrive. Unfortunately, over the last 15 years, there has been a significant decline in both bee colonies and individual bees due to ...

Penn State’s Center for Pollinator Research has a new resource to help gardeners, beekeepers, and other bee-interested citizens keep track of how bees are doing in their neighborhood. Beescape is a ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

“Dot.” “Dash.” Short pulse, long pulse. Humans invented Morse code as a way to communicate using electrical signals. Now, bees have managed to learn the fundamental building blocks of this alphabet. A ...

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When you think of bees, what comes to mind? It might be the sweet taste of honey or an ever present buzzing next to your ear. It may even be the 2007 cinematic masterpiece, “Bee Movie.” What you might ...

You think you’re hot. Try living in a space no bigger than, well, a beehive with 20,000 of your closest friends. Or, wearing a down coat as summer temperatures start to cook. People have their ...

Argentine ants compete with bumble bees for prized nectar sources. But the bees are fighting back. Find out how.

PERRY COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – May 20 is World Bee Day but the owners of Honey in the Hollow Bee Farm in Newport are about the bees every day. “It started out because Glenn loves bees,” said Sue Scott, ...

The sight and sound of a bumblebee or a honey bee buzzing from flower to flower in an alpine meadow or a roadside planting is calming to many, yet it invokes outright panic in others. This happens ...

This article examines the implications of a textual variant found in two Italian witnesses of Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour that transforms the section on bees and song into one about birds ...