A new genetics study of wild honeybees offers clues to how a population has adapted to a mite that has devastated bee colonies worldwide. The findings may aid beekeepers and bee breeders to prevent future honeybee declines. By Krishna Ramanujan.

Red-hued bees led authorities to discover New York City’s biggest-ever marijuana farm in the basement of a cherry factory—triggering the owner’s suicide.

Amid a die-off, some beekeepers go to extraordinary, creative lengths to keep their bees thriving. By Leah Sottile.

You've heard the news about honeybees. "Beepocalypse," they've called it. Beemageddon. America's honeybees are dying, putting honey production and $15 billion worth of pollinated food crops in jeopardy. The situation has become so dire that earlier this year the White House put forth the first National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators, a 64-page policy framework for saving the nation's bees, butterflies and other pollinating animals.

How the free market saved us from beemageddon.

Humans like to brag about their brilliant advent of vaccinations to prevent diseases, but bees just roll their eyes and shrug. After all, they’ve been doing it naturally for much longer.

How the free market saved us from beemageddon.

Solve Colony Collapse Disorder with the Bee Pole. Who knew dead wood could help save humanity?

My buddy lives around Ottawa and he's starting a permaculture farm on his land. His brother has already been beekeeping for the better part of three years. This is his instagram feed. I wanted to share it because I think that it's important to encourage this kind of thinking today! Happy browsing. I hope that

James Cook University researchers in Australia are creating a buzz in bee research, gluing tiny transmitters to the backs of the insects for the first time.

In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could starve. The foes bees face are truly horrifying – some are a direct consequence of human greed. We need to help our small buzzing friends or we will face extremely unpleasant consequences.

Shavitz was "a wild-bearded and free-spirited Maine man, a beekeeper, a wisecracker," the company writes. He was 80.

The Bald Eagle Protection Act, signed into law 75 years ago on June 8, 1940, was well-intended. A multi-pronged assault on the raptors was taking its toll...

A block of downtown Fredericton,New Brunswick was all abuzz on Thursday afternoon after a large swarm of bees took over the branches of a small tree in front of the Crowne Plaza Hotel

This infrared view of the inside of the hive shows the complex inner workings of the honey bee colony.

From flower emblazoned cemeteries to rooftop gardens and balconies, Norway's capital Oslo is creating a “bee highway” to protect endangered pollinators essential to food production...

Beekeepers were called in to capture and remove about 15,000 honey bees that had swarmed around the main Senate entrance of the U.S. Capitol Building.

While insecticides are a known deadly threat, two studies find that bees exposed to fungicides are smaller, sickly and declining in ‘chemical cocktail’ farmlands

They’re dying of stress, which is stressing us out. But we’ve only got ourselves to blame.