Aug. 5—Honey bees are crucial for pollinating crops, but in Northeastern states, more than 40% of honey bee colonies die each winter partly due to susceptibility to parasites and pathogens. One way to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: In 1957, a species of South African honey bees escaped an experimental apiary in Brazil, interbreeding with local European honey bees and creating ...

When people think of honey bees, they often think of classic wooden hives, in which beekeepers are having to breed more and more bees just to keep managed populations stable. These man-made boxes, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A Wiltshire beekeeper said on Wednesday he may have discovered a strain of honey bee immune to a parasite that has been gradually wiping out populations of the vital insect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Africanized honey bees, better known as killer bees, aren’t your garden-variety buzzers. They play a crucial role as pollinators ...

The native Irish honey or black bee is our only indigenous honey bee. Highly adapted to our Irish weather - it’s not easy ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Through hybridization, these traits where transmitted to honey bees in the Americas. The hybrids are known colloquially as “killer bees” because they ...