When he made one of his weekly trips to check on them, he found all but one hive box completely smashed, frames filled with wax, honey and baby bees scattered throughout a field. Piles of dead bees ...

Nestled snuggly behind a patch of pines on Mount Spokane sat a wire fence, protecting an array of 11 honeybee hives from foraging raccoons and curious dogs. It was never meant to keep bears out — and ...

The world’s population of honey bees has been disappearing at an alarming rate. This isn’t a new phenomenon and environmentalists, bee activists, scientists, farmers and others have been trying for ...

Orchard growers looking for alternatives to honey bees for managed pollination services have new reason to be optimistic about the potential of one honey bee cousin, the blue orchard bee. A recent ...

We just wrapped the most deadly winter on record for commercial honey bees in the U.S. They not only make honey, they also pollinate more than a hundred U.S. crops here for a total of $18 billion in ...

Dive into an immersive experience that will teach you about the hidden world of nature's tiniest workers, nestled in a ...

The syrupy byproduct of the nearly 250,000 bees living in Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery — aptly named “Sweet Hereafter” honey — goes on sale Monday. “Sweetness takes the sting out of ...

If you’ve recently purchased a box of Honey Nut Cheerios, you might have noticed one thing missing: Buzz the Bee. The brand is using its mascot to draw attention to #BringBackTheBees, a campaign aimed ...

Honey bees pollinate flowers, produce honey and help with agricultural production, but their numbers have been dwindling for decades. Parasites, pesticides and farming practices have all been pointed ...

Shoppers in Canada may notice something unusual about the boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios on grocery store shelves -- "Buzz" the iconic honeybee mascot is missing! And there's a specific reason why. Buzz ...