Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has had environmentalist, beekeeping enthusiasts, and farmers concerned about the future of farming, and, well, food since 2006. Pollinators, including bees, are ...

The world's largest bee is as big as a human thumb. That might be frightening to most people, but scientists were delighted when a team of researchers recently found it in Indonesia. It's the largest ...

It has been 38 years since scientists last spotted the insect known as Wallace’s Giant Bee, a rare species found only in a group of Indonesian islands called the North Moluccas. With a wingspan of 2.5 ...

Bees face extinction because their nests are overheating due to climate change, warns a new study. Wild bumblebees all over the world need a similar nest temperature to thrive. But with global warming ...

In a Caribbean cave where owls once spat out the bones of their prey, scientists have uncovered a nesting strategy that ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

OSLO (Reuters) - Almost one in 10 of Europe's wild bee species is at risk of extinction because of threats from the spread of farms and pesticides among other factors, a first assessment of the ...

In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows. When ...