On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...

There's more than one way to build a honeybee hive, depending on the needs of the bees, according to a study published August 26 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Golnar Gharooni-Fard of the ...

"Generally, you want bees who are adapted to your local climate, and our bees were adapted for Southern California," Rob says. But those that did survive clearly "had some advantage" genetically that ...

Honey bees have to balance effort, risk and reward, making rapid and accurate assessments of which flowers are mostly likely to offer food for their hive. Research published in the journal eLife today ...

Honey bees must make it back to their hives before dusk to avoid individual bees becoming lost or exposed to nighttime dangers. Forager bees sleep overnight so that they are ready to work the ...

From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...