A queen bee's life begins with one of the most dramatic battles in the insect world, where only a single ruler can survive.

For centuries, honey bees introduced from Europe quietly became part of life across the Americas, pollinating crops and ...

Twenty-six African queen honey bees escaped a Brazilian apiary in 1957, beginning a continental spread. These bees, known as ...

A 1957 experiment in Brazil was meant to create better honey bees, but the escape of 26 queen bees led to the spread of Africanized honey bees across two continents.

UK bees face grave danger from ever increasing summer temperatures, and unwelcome pests. But one man is on a mission to save ...

A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

Savannah Spoor turned to bee venom therapy after years of debilitating Lyme disease symptoms ...

Scientists found that a common pesticide altered ovarian genes and sharply reduced egg production in bumblebees even when the ...

Some 60,000 Italian honeybees live, and work, on a rooftop at The Times’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters. By Megan McCrea Megan McCrea visited the New York Times hives with the beekeepers who take ...

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 ...

As yellow-legged hornets spread through South Carolina’s Lowcountry region, threatening the local honey crop, a state team of bee defenders is racing to the rescue.

To some, it’s just annoying, but to others, it marks the chilling call of the world’s deadliest creature: the buzz of a ...