A parasitic fly has found a way to turn honeybees into unwitting nurseries for its larvae, hijacking their behavior in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A honey bee pollinates a raspberry bush on June 9 in Whatcom County. About 1.7 million honey bee colonies — nearly 60% of all such ...

Palestinian beekeepers inspect hives at an apiary near the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Bureij on April 19, 2010. Jihad Abu Shamalah, the Gaza farmer who owns the apiary says he had to move his ...

It’s estimated that over the past five years, some 30 percent of bees in the United States have either disappeared or failed to survive to pollinate blossoms in the spring. That’s about 50% more than ...

Philip Gerrie lives in Noe Valley with, as he puts it, “a spouse, two cats, and 100,000 bees.” The past president of the San Francisco Beekeepers' Association is a soft-spoken man who calmly notes ...

Honeybees are dying. In the winter of 2012-2013, one-third of U.S. honeybee colonies died or disappeared, a 42 percent increase from the year before and well above the 10-15 percent losses beekeepers ...

Honey bees across America are facing a crisis that threatens their very existence. Research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows that Nebraska is among the hardest-hit states, losing as many ...

Beekeeper Wes Hull points a smoker toward one of his hives, calming the bees inside by disrupting the pheromones they use to communicate. (Noah Wicks photo) Researchers say they may have found an ...

Monsanto, the biotech company whose proprietary genetically modified corn has been fingered as the possible culprit in the collapse of the bee population, has gone ahead and purchased Beelogics, a ...

The bees need your help. Advertisement Article continues below this ad By the numbers Here is a look at bees and honey in New York in 2014-2015. $9 million worth of honey was produced 3.3 million ...

Hundreds of flatbed loads of honey bees are trucked into Washington every spring, enabling the production of apples, cherries, pears and berries in the state. The pollinators are estimated to add at ...