Honeybees must eat the right sterols directly from pollen and pass them to their developing young. A bee "superfood supplement" offers hope.

Honey bee workers in this video hover over feeding dishes with different diets. While flying, bees may distinguish differences by sight and by scent. Here, bees were given a choice between 34 ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae, can reduce the effects of nutritional stress on developing bees -- ...

Not just food: Plant chemicals within nectar yield honey that packs a pharmaceutical punch and helps keep bees healthy. Ed Peeters / EyeEm via Getty Images It should come as no surprise that bees know ...

Bees are typically eating nectar and pollen right now to bulk up their hives with honey for the winter. But this year's ...

The buzz about natural products is not just for humans. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service researchers from the Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, and ...