The fat bees are back, as are the tiny holes they love to drill in decks and porches. Carpenter bees (not to be confused with bumblebees or honeybees) are large bees with shiny, black tail sections.

This is a robotic beehive with an efficiency that no human beekeeper could match. The machine scans stacks of honeycombs one by one, inspecting them for disease, monitoring for pesticides, and reports ...

Go to a park on a hot summer day, and you will not be surprised to see bees buzzing in and out of flowers. They drink flower nectar and collect flower pollen. Then, depending on what kind of bees they ...

Honey bees could become the latest crime fighters to help locate the bodies of missing people. At George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia, the Honey Bee Initiative and the Forensic Science Research ...

In London, western honey bees travel shorter distances to find their meals in metropolitan areas than in agricultural ones. A rich supply of gardens and decorative flowers provides ample nectar close ...

Bill Crumpler holds up a honeycomb to examine the bees’ state from a hive rescued from the tarmac of Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport a month before, when a shipment of millions of bees meant for Alaska was ...