Larger elephants require hundreds of pounds of food per day, making farms tempting targets for easy meals. The task of fending these animals off can be both monumental and dangerous for African farmers. At a scale that would solve the problem, traditional fencing is simply cost-prohibitive. A strange array of alternate design solutions have been developed over time, culminating in what may be the sweetest solution yet: the use of tiny honey bees to ward off the world’s largest land mammals.

Honeybees infected with deadly parasitic maggots that make them behave like zombies have been found in Canada for the first time.

A major 18-year study has found evidence linking controversial "neonicotinoid" pesticides with “large-scale population extinctions” of wild bees for the first time. The insecticides have been shown to have “sub-lethal” effects on bees, which are vital pollinators for many crops, in laboratory-style conditions and small-scale studies. But their actual effect in the real world was not well understood – until now.

Scientists have identified an important immune response in the semen of male honey bees, a discovery that may help researchers better protect colonies against disease. Honey bees face a barrage of threats from all angles: disease, pesticides, pollution, shrinking habitats. Recently, researchers at the University of Western Australia set out to explore the battle between bees and the fungal parasite Nosema apis. The fungal disease causes dysentery and can trigger colony collapse disorder.

There are new varieties of plants coming out every year that will appeal to bees. Here are 12 of the newest.

After a century of just droning along, beekeeping is going high-tech. By Cara Giaimo.

Across the country, honeybees infected with a parasitic fly are behaving strangely.

The agency says it may place new restrictions on the chemical by year’s end. By Tom Philpott.

You will think differently about bees when you see what they can do if given the proper mold to work with!

Commercial beekeepers across America have been struggling with great numbers of bee deaths over the past few years. What’s behind their failing health? Some research points to a class of pesticide that’s coated onto a large proportion of corn and soybeans grown in the U.S. Allison Aubrey of NPR reports.

Bee colonies exposed to the pesticide seemed less active in pollinating apple trees. By Chelsea Harvey.

For a short period each spring, bees in certain parts of the world add a little extra ingredient to their honey, giving it a trippy twist. By gathering nectar from the rhododendrons that come into bloom at this time of year, they infuse their sugary produce with certain toxins that cause a range of interesting effects when ingested by humans.

Can Niue, one of the world's smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?

Sweet Beginnings, a social enterprise business, is reducing recidivism rates on Chicago's West Side by creating beekeeping jobs for people released from prison.

A HUMBLE Australian beekeeper, who used crowd-funding to revolutionise the way the world extracts honey from bee hives, made a cool $16 million.

Bad news for apiphobes: Killer bees are on the move in the United States, but that may be helpful to the besieged European bee.

Pollinators are vanishing, and a silent spring could become a horrifying reality. So why won’t the EPA do more? By Alex Morris.

In a bid to get more people reconnected with the nature of their food, Living Interiors' new modular observation beehive helps to highlight the critical importance of pollinators to our food system. As a backyard farmer, I've been really jazzed to see so many new solutions crop up in the homegrown food sector, especially those that focus on some of the unsung heroes of the food chain, the pollinators.