State officials have made the first known detection in Alaska of the small hive beetle, an "economically significant" pest of honey bees, according to an alert published in late September. An Alaska ...

Winters can be tough on managed honey bee colonies, with beekeepers in the United States reporting that one-third of their colonies die each winter. A new study by Penn State researchers has found ...

Moran and her team raise thousands of bees for their research in rooftop hives on The University of Texas at Austin campus. [Marsha Miller/University of Texas at Austin.] Scientists at The University ...

Scientists report that they have developed a new strategy to protect honey bees from a deadly trend known as colony collapse: genetically engineered strains of bacteria. This is the first time anyone ...

Since a mysterious ailment wiped out three-quarters of his bee hives in fall 2005, Scott Barnes has waited for scientists to find out why it happened. He’s not alone. Beekeepers around the world have ...

Colorado State University Extension, CSU College of Agricultural Sciences and the Colorado Department of Agriculture have been awarded a grant for $132,000 to span three years from the National ...

Honey bees are being silently killed by a chronic viral disease as some have been observed to be unable to fly and have weird greasy abdomens, experts say. According to a report from The Dailymail, a ...

That is, unless you’re talking to one of Florida's estimated 5,000 registered beekeepers. And those bees they keep? They don't live on some distant property: More than 24,000 hives are registered in ...