Closeup of a bumblebee on a pink flower - 49pauly/Getty Images Bees are super important — and it's not just the honeybees. While often overlooked, native bees pollinate the vast majority of flowering ...

As World Bee Day approaches on 20 May, offering a timely reminder of pollinators' vital role in food security, biodiversity, and ecosystem health, many might find themselves pondering the intricate ...

When most people think of bees, they picture them buzzing from flower to flower or building hives in trees. But not all bees live that way. In fact, several species actually dig their nests ...

It’s a question that has sparked the curiosity of scholars and bee lovers for decades: how many species of bees are there in the world? This might, at first, seem like a silly question. But it is a ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have added eight never-before-recorded bee species to the state’s list of native pollinators. While collecting pollinators in Chelan County to study how ...

When Kendal Sager lifts the top of her beehive, tens of thousands of bees waggle across the honeycomb — their cells filled with bright yellow, orange and pink pollen collected from flowers in Sager's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hybrid bee spawned from a combination of African and European honeybees have been sighted close to Georgia. Georgia Commissioner ...

A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5 ...

Volunteers across Iowa with an interest in pollinator conservation are needed for a new program that will help researchers track and monitor the state’s at-risk bumble bees. Stephanie Shepherd, a ...

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil. Scientists believe it may be one of ...