Unlike honey bees, which live in hives, Melissodes are a solitary species of native bees that build their nests in the ground, and they’ve been spotted recently in the Acton preserve.

Chandigarh: The Rock Honey bee (Apis dorsata) deploys formidable air defences by virtue of its massed stings. When the bee ...

Shannon LaGrave of Oak Cliff Bee Company (right) conducts a live honey-harvesting demonstration with Rajan Singh, CEO EarthX, at the on-site beehives at the Hilton Anatole hotel on Tuesday, April ...

A few stragglers will find their way into the hive. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann. However, according to a nationwide survey by Project Apis — a nonprofit that supports beekeeping science — honey bees ...

St. Clair Shores beekeeper Mike Lawler was at the city’s community garden on June 28 talking about bees and demonstrating the ...

GREELEY, CO - NOVEMBER 04: Local Hive CEO Tony Landretti shows a frame from which he has harvested honey from while explaining the basics of beekeeping to the Tribune using his three hives in the ...

The rocket-like, three-legged Freedom Hive consists of a hollowed-out log with a thatched roof, mimicking the natural tree-hollow habitat of honey bees. The Box Tree Hive (designed by Somerville ...

The 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives on board came off the truck around 9 a.m., unleashing all the bees, deputies said. “250 million bees are now loose,” Whatcom County Sheriff’s deputies ...

Although Utah enjoys the title "The Beehive State," the top honey-producing states include California, Florida, and South Dakota. In 1998, the United States made over 89,000 metric tons of honey.

Honey bees are major pollinators of more than 75% of global crops.But bees have been struggling — with habitat loss, climate change, pesticide exposure, parasites, poor nutrition and diseases ...