Artist Wolfgang Buttress designed this 17-metre artificial beehive based on bee research at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. The multi-sensory elements of the Hive respond to the real-time ...

A honeybee hive is far more than just a buzz of activity. In fact, the social organization inside a nest rivals that in the best-run corporations, with each bee and each cell possessing a rigidly ...

Drone bees are all male, have no stinger and all they do is mate with the queen. They can be such a drain on the hive that as fall begins, they’re forced out to either freeze or starve to death.

He climbed into trees and poured cyanide into hives to kill the honeybees inside. He sawed down the trees and measured the cavities. Seeley found that bee hive hollows were very much alike.

So, what are the new beekeepers learning about their bees? They are learning about festooning, which is when the bees are ...

At the University of Maryland, just a long three-point shot away from the arena where the school’s basketball teams play, you’ll find about 100 thousand bees living outside a greenhouse.