Becky Griffin, pollinator health associate with UGA-Georgia Research & Education Center, said this is a passion project. “It’s a community science project held over two days,” said Griffin.

Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs to track when they go in and out of their hives. The work, a collaboration among entomologists ...

Located just off campus near the South Quad on Lincoln Avenue sits the Robinson Bee Research Facility. Here, researchers silently work with and raise honey bee colonies, out of sight of the University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Africanized honey bees, often referred to as "killer bees," are now found in 13 states and are slowly spreading northward, ...

Bees play an important role in the ecosystem as pollinators but scientists believe they may be helpful in other ways - such as providing insight into the health of people living in cities. Scientists ...

Honey bees can normally keep their hives perfectly climate-controlled, but extreme heat can overwhelm their defenses. During ...

Although honey bees have the ability to regulate hive temperatures, new research published in Ecological and Evolutionary ...

Samuel Ramsey, an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, is renowned for his expertise and effervescent enthusiasm for everything related to bugs. He's made ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The yellow-legged hornet is a predator: after it sets up a nest in a new neighborhood, its workers head out in search of smaller wasps, flies and ...