A new breed of honey bees provides a major advance in the global fight against the parasitic Varroa mite, new research shows. The invasive mite, which has spread to all continents except Australia and ...

Their research is taking place at the University of British Columbia and it’s spearheaded by molecular biologist Professor Leonard Foster and his peer from York University in Toronto, the ...

The study found that when bees could choose between plain sugar solution and sugar solution containing viruses, they preferred the virus-contaminated food.

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: In 1957, a species of South African honey bees escaped an experimental apiary in Brazil, interbreeding with local European honey bees and creating ...

The honeybee population has been steadily on the decline for decades. Though it’s not quite understood why the bees are dying off, scientists have decided to breed “super bees” in order to ensure the ...

High in the Dubai mountains, where there’s little vegetation, bees struggle to survive the summer heat. But like in the rest of the world, bees and other pollinators are needed in this arid ...

Honeybees, especially crucial for their pollination services, are vital to agriculture and the environment, but bee breeding was largely a matter of chance until Professor Harry H. Laidlaw Jr., ...

Twenty-six African queen honey bees escaped a Brazilian apiary in 1957, beginning a continental spread. These bees, known as ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Through hybridization, these traits where transmitted to honey bees in the Americas. The hybrids are known colloquially as “killer bees” because they ...