Bees pollinate our crops and make it possible to live in a world with honey. Invite them into your garden with these annuals and perennials.

Every year on May 20, the world celebrates World Bee Day, a global call to recognize the vital role bees and other pollinators play in keeping our ecosystems alive and our plates full. This year’s ...

Busy as a bee is an accurate statement. According to the Xerces Society, a nonprofit organization working to protect bees, 75% of the world’s food crop depends on at least one pollinator, such as the ...

Texas Beeworks founder Erika Thompson answers the internet's buzzing questions about bees and beekeeping. Can bees be trained to attack individuals? How accurate is "Bee Movie"? How does one get into ...

It’s a hot summer day and you’re sipping your lemonade on the porch when a honey bee lands on your cup, deciding it is a shareable beverage. Her home must be close, right? Have you considered your ...

Honeybees, which are tasked with pollinating many of the agricultural crops in the United States, are dying off in record numbers. Commercial beekeepers are reporting losses this year ranging between ...

Learn how to support solitary bees and create a home for the native bee populations in your area. Find some important solitary bee hive instructions, support pollinators and boost your plant health.

Even if you, for some insane reason, hate honey and never touch a drop of the stuff, you’ve probably eaten a bee-pollinated food today. Coconut? Bee pollinated. Almonds? Those too. Soybeans? Another ...

Bee species around the world are facing devastating declines, and researchers are warning that we are running out of time to save them. According to new research, up to 25% of known bee species ...

Sweat bees are a species of bee that live alone in underground hives or nests. Female sweat bees can sting people. As their name suggests, they’re attracted to people’s sweat (but they eat pollen from ...

Lila Westreich receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research program. Amid the worry over the ...

Honey bees follow personal and highly precise flight routes using landmarks and memory, according to new research.