When people think of honey bees, they often think of classic wooden hives, in which beekeepers are having to breed more and more bees just to keep managed populations stable. These man-made boxes, ...

But sometimes bees get a little too close to home for comfort. Most of the time, bees do their own thing, foraging for food ...

Female ground bees dig nests in the ground up to six or so inches deep in which to raise young. The bees pile earth around the sides of the hole. These bees can be very active in March and April.

Bees usually spend a lot of time flying from flower so you would never expect them to nest in the ground. Here are 6 types ...

A colony of honey bees spotted by a photographer at Chatfield is creating a bit of buzz. They're nesting on an open branch at the state park, something that is unusual according to Mario Padilla an ...

Honey bees are under extreme pressure. Beekeepers in the US have been losing and then replacing an average of 40% of their honey bee colonies every year since 2010, a rate that is probably ...

Orchard growers looking for alternatives to honey bees for managed pollination services have new reason to be optimistic about the potential of one honey bee cousin, the blue orchard bee. A recent ...