A new study has mounted perhaps the most intricate, detailed look ever at the diversity in structure and form of bees, offering new insights in a long-standing debate over how complex social behaviors ...

Honey bees are essential pollinators of ecosystems and agriculture worldwide. With an estimated 50–80% of crops pollinated by honey bees, they generate approximately $20 billion annually in market ...

These close-up photographs, taken in Bognor Regis for World Bee Day on May 20, celebrate the vital role bees play in gardens, parks and coastal green spaces across West Sussex. (Image: Joanna ...

Pollinators are undergoing a global decline. Although vital to pollinator conservation and ecological research, species-level identification is expensive, time consuming, and requires specialized ...

Queen bees emit a pheromone that attracts worker bees — the queen's daughters — to her side. The differentiation of bee larvae into either workers or queens has baffled researchers, and now a team led ...

In northeastern Turkey, the beekeeping traditions of the Hemshin people, an ethnic minority originating from Armenia, are both evolving and at risk of vanishing. Atilla G ü nari tends to one of his ...

Gardens buzz with life, especially when they host flowers that attract bees. These industrious pollinators are drawn to blooms that provide rich nectar and pollen sources. The dance between flowers ...