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The unbeaten and top-ranked Stephenville Honeybees didn't leave the 18th annual Knights of Columbus Challenge of Champions soccer tournament with any ...

Have you ever seen bees shimmering? It's pretty neat! It's also oddly mesmerizing, as evidenced by a widely circulated video of the phenomenon recently ...

South African Cape bees turn the honey bee reputation for cooperation on its head. Andrew Masterson reports.

Research in Pennsylvania shows that overall colony weight and the number of worker bees to be the leading factors in determining overwintering survival of ...

You might have heard about how honey bees (Apis mellifera) are doing poorly these days. It's different, though, from the situation many of the world's vulnerable ...

Amazing video of a honey bee colony protecting its home against wasps -- by creating a mesmerizing defensive wave. Created with Sketch. Created with Sketch ...

Honey bee colonies around the world are at risk from a variety of threats, including pesticides, diseases, poor nutrition and habitat loss. Recent research ...

Among the many threats to honey bee colonies around the world, one stands alone: the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. For decades, researchers assumed ...

ABINGDON, Va. — A beginner beekeeping class in Abingdon is likely to create a buzz among people who want to learn about getting honey from a hobby ...

GREENUP Carrie Davis said it all began last school year when the president of the Greenup County Bee Keeper's Association came and spoke to her class.

Among the social insects, bees have developed a strong and rich social network, where busy worker bees tend to the queen, who in turn, controls reproduction ...

The social insect with a matriarchal home life is still active and buzzing around Leon County and the vicinity.

A team of University of Alberta students are hoping to market a probiotic they created to help honeybees ward off a fungal infection that has wiped out entire ...

In this podcast, we explore the plight of the bee and talk to Kristy Allen, a beekeeper and advocate who is running a thriving business, the Beez Kneez in ...

At a time when some beekeepers are struggling to keep their colonies alive and pollinating, the prospect of a vaccine for honeybees has offered a flicker of hope ...

Many of our everyday food sources depend on pollinators such as honey bees--but what do we really know about our busy friends? Daphney Glass, the Head ...

Inventing decoy bee larvae prompts a back-to-basics rethink of a mite ominously named Varroa destructor.

Savannah Bowers earned the highest achievement in Girl Scouts, the Gold Award. The Great Neck resident created “Abuzz for Honey Bees,” a conservation ...

We might be able to save honeybees from viruses transmitted by invasive parasites without chemical treatment.

As winter arrives, all is still. Bears hibernate, birds fly to warmer temperatures, fish hide beneath a frozen surface, and insects have died, leaving behind only ...

Internationally acclaimed honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., a UC Davis alumnus whose administrative career took him from chairman Department of ...

In Jefferson County, the Rockwool plant has been a touchy subject for many, with opponents saying the plant will bring adverse effects to residents both big and ...

This hypnotic video shows honeybees in Vietnam doing the 'Mexican wave' to protect themselves.

Honeybees are now the first insect to have a vaccine thanks to scientists from the University of Helsinki.

Internationally acclaimed honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., emeritus provost of Arizona State University and University of California Davis alumnus, has ...

Caring for a colony of one queen and up to 60000 worker bees requires commitment, attention to detail and, above all, planning.

More honey bee colonies are disappearing every year. Leigh-Kathryn Bonner is using generations of family beekeeping knowledge to think up a promising ...

This is the fascinating moment a group of giant honey bees in Vietnam thrust their abdomens at 90 degrees up into the air in an effort to fend off smaller ...

Since the 1980s, Varroa Destructor mites have been wreaking havoc on the world's honey bee populations, and beekeepers haven't had a good way to fight ...

The Greenville High School Honeybees remained perfect at 19-0 with a 67-36 thrashing of the Clinton Lady Arrows Friday night.

With senior guard Autumn Nichols providing 20 points with her outside shooting attack and the defense almost air tight, the state-ranked Stephenville ...

New beekeeping rules proposed by the Department of Agriculture could lead to the destruction of New Jersey's native pollinators.

Honey is one of the oldest foods in the world. It has been used as a food source and as a medicine as far back as 1500 B.C.. There is evidence that beekeeping ...

The state-ranked Stephenville Honeybees didn't improve their basketball season record in the 61st annual Whataburger Tournament last weekend, but they did ...

The quick succession of Hurricanes Irma and Maria knocked out Puerto Rico's electricity and displaced thousands of people from their homes. The storms also ...

The reddish-brown varroa mite, a parasite of honeybees and accidentally introduced in the Big Island of Hawaii in 2007-08, is about the size of a pinhead.

Senior Jayci Morton, already an all-state volleyball performer for the Stephenville Honeybees, continues to pick up postseason honors — including being voted ...

Stroll through an apple orchard in bloom, and you'll be surrounded with the buzz of busy bees. But unless the farm manager has rented hives of domesticated ...

GLEN ROSE — With only eight total games in District 7-4A play, the Glen Rose Lady Tigers haven't done themselves any favors in the first two. “We have put our ...

The drastic decline in global honeybee populations is no secret. The phenomenon has been named “colony collapse syndrome,” and though it's not clear what ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue says Farm *Service* Agency offices nationwide will soon reopen to provide additional ...

Bees are disappearing. You might have heard that colony collapse disorder of European honeybees can nearly wipe out a hive. But native bees are also in.

The Northwest Beekeepers Association is hosting a 10-hour Introduction to Beekeeping Weekend Workshop beginning Feb. 23, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and ...

ROCKWELL | Collin Witte's first year as a beekeeper was “challenging and rewarding.”

Picture Rob Dunn approaching his publisher: “I have an idea for a book about all the tiny insects, bacteria, and other creepy-crawly things that live in our homes.

Insect pollinators like bees (honey bees and native bees), moths and butterflies, and pollinator friendly species of beetles and flies are showing a trend of ...

The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has been helping a rare bee species in the UK spread their wings at a time when the species is under ...

Not only did the Stephenville Honeybees improve to 2-0 on Tuesday with an 8-0 non-district road win over Alvarado, they also learned that they are ranked No.

Kathleen Bourn of Canon presented a most interesting program on beekeeping at the Iris Garden Club meeting Tuesday, January 8, at the Robert Toombs ...

To the Editor:What do the bees have? They have the ability to pollinate our food supply better than any other insect in nature according to studies of insect ...

The Stephenville High School girls placed second and the boys took third place as they opened their 2019 powerlifting schedule competing on Jan. 17 in the ...

The effects of a changing landscape on our friend, the bee, once again points at the subtle and not-so-subtle changes that can ripple through the ecosystem.

BROOKINGS – Brookings County 4-H members made and donated 77 blankets during the 2017-2018 statewide Blanket Buddies *service* project – the most ...

Tualatin Valley Beekeepers Association to hold free event, Local News, Forest Grove local News, Breaking News alerts for Forest Grove city.

From pesticides to land development to electromagnetic pollution, humans often harm the ability of honeybees to reproduce.

The first-ever vaccine for insects now exists, thanks to scientists at the University of Helsinki in Finland hoping to save one of the most crucial pollinators in the ...

The compound protects against the American foulbrood disease, but the same technique could lead to protection against other major pathogens.

Monitoring honey bee hives by hand is passé. The buzz these days is about high-tech sensors inside hives. They help commercial beekeepers keep colonies ...

Have you ever wondered how bees and butterflies know where to find good feeding spots These insects dont have sharp vision, but they see polarized light ...

Tuko.co.ke News ☛ According to witnesses, he was rushed to hospital in critical condition and succumbed to stings on the fateful morning. His parents now want ...

Scientists at the University of Helsinki have developed the first edible vaccine for honey bees.

By Darren Lum. Published Jan. 22, 2019. At the back of Ron Lofthouse's Haliburton home, his apiary of bees is quiet, hibernating for the winter. It's a complete ...

There's a harmonious relationship between fruit and nut crops and honey bees. The fruit and nut industry depends on these pollinators. Honey bees are ...

An Iowa farmer lost tens of thousands of bees and about 150 pounds of honey after vandals trashed his colonies with cinder blocks and bricks, leaving the ...

A new collection of reports in Environmental Entomology highlights the need for pesticide risk assessments that account for the differing qualities and behaviors ...

The yellow and black pollinator is being welcomed into unusual places like Delta across the country – all to combat the drastic decline in honeybee populations ...

A veteran Hawke's Bay beekeeper says many people trying to get on board the manuka honey gold rush are actually causing the local honey bee population to ...

JONESBORO, Ark. -- Bobby Coy and his son, Richard Coy, owners of Crooked Creek Bee Co., in Jonesboro, began noticing a decline in bee pollination after ...

Up to 13 percent of US beekeepers are in danger of losing their colonies due to pesticides sprayed to contain the Zika virus, new research suggests.

A new study gives declining bee populations and the people trying to save them new hope.

Researchers studying how targeting certain gene will disrupt mosquitoes ability to produce viable eggs.

A bee removal expert in Tennessee is making quite the buzz after extracting an estimated 35000 honey bees from a brick wall.

New research suggests honey bees may be protected from devastating viruses by eating extracts derived from fungi.

“I'm surprised it took you so long to ask,” Brandon Hopkins says with a laugh. The 35-year-old entomologist is preparing samples to be sent to the USDA ...

A female honeybee with two fathers -- and no mother -- has been discovered; the first ever of her kind observed in nature. Female worker honeybee, Apis ...

It's no secret that bee populations are in decline across the UK and Europe. There has also been a fantastic increase in public awareness over the past few ...

Honeybees clumped on trees may adjust their positions to keep the cluster together when it's jostled by wind, a new study suggests.

The first genetic study of part-male, part-female honeybees shows these bees can have multiple fathers, but it's unclear how this happens.

Glyphosate is among the most widely used agricultural chemicals in the world, and the companies that make it describe it as safer and more ...

80 percent of the food we eat is dependent on insects for pollinating, Most of it is done by honey bees.

Pollination by commercially raised bees is important to a variety of crops but none more than California almonds. In turn, beekeepers depend on them.

Select the right blooms, provide water and avoid pesticides to help happy pollinators.

NEW DELHI: As Dinesh Kumar Rana, having woken up early in the morning, leaves home to picks up a couple of villagers and be on their way to their ancestral ...

Bee researcher Bernardo Niño explains what a healthy honey bee colony looks like and takes us inside the research of a mysterious colony collapse disorder.

Bloomberg reports scientists at the University of Helsinki have developed the first vaccine to protect honey bees against microbial infections. Advertisement ...

It has been said that the development of an understanding of zero by society initiated a major intellectual advance in humans, and we have been thought to be ...

Collaborative research efforts between members of the 88th Civil Engineer Group Natural Resources Program, the Propolis Project and researchers at Penn ...

Farmers are turning to other types of bees — like the blue orchard bee, the bumblebee and alfalfa leafcutter — that have proved to be effective pollinators of ...

There are seven species of Apis honey bee in the world, all of them native to Asia, Europe, and Africa. Apis mellifera, the western honey bee, is the species ...

A hyperfocus on the plight of hooneybees has left thousands of other species in the dark.

A new study shows how honey bees pollinate blueberry crops, despite lacking the skill for buzz pollination thought necessary to access blueberry pollen.

Glyphosate is the world's most widely used herbicide. Because it's considered safe for animals, it's extensively used not only in agriculture, but also for weed ...

The die-off of America's honey bee colonies, which are disappearing in droves because of parasites, pesticides, poor nutrition and disease, leave beekeepers ...

The irony of writing this month's cover story is not lost on me. In fact, buzzing, stinging insects and I have a strange relationship. When I was a very young, ...

A growing number of honey bees die each year due to pesticides, vanishing habitats, poor nutrition and climate change, with potentially disastrous.

Honeybees are under siege, straining the business of farming. Now growers are turning to other bee species to help their crops.

Bees cling to one another in the shape of a beard to stave off heat. HowStuffWorks takes a look at bee bearding.

Beekeepers and researchers will welcome the unveiling of the small hive beetle's genome by Agricultural Research *Service* (ARS) scientists and their ...

A new study that explores the effect of smoke on honey bee (Apis mellifera) behavior finds that it reduces the instance of bees releasing a venom droplet in their ...

Beekeepers in the U.S. reported an increase in honeybee deaths over the last year, possibly the result of erratic weather patterns brought on by a changing ...