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 ...

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 ...