Crops and flowers rely on them for survival, but wild bees are declining – and crucial nutrients will go missing from our diets as a result There are few ways in and out of Nepal’s Jumla district. The ...

It all began in the spring of 2022, when Rachel Fordyce, then a laboratory technician in Cornell University's entomology department, noticed an anomalous presence of insects during her usual walk to ...

The White House got an unexpected buzz Friday when thousands of bees swarmed the North Lawn weeks after first lady Melania Trump added new bee colonies to the executive mansion grounds. Numerous black ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists at Cornell University ...

Bees are commonly imagined as insects that live in hives hanging from trees. In reality, however, about 70 percent of native bees build their nests in the ground. And, according to new research, some ...

A swarm of 1 million bees shut down part of a highway for hours as authorities quickly moved to address the situation. Around 11 a.m. Friday, a pickup truck transporting the bees crashed on Interstate ...

Bees are reportedly swarming a Tennessee interstate after a truck transporting one million bees overturned and shut part of the highway down. People were being asked to avoid the area of Interstate 40 ...

A New York State cemetery may be home to nearly 5.6 million ground-nesting bees, according to a new study. The colony is one of the largest ever recorded and likely one of the oldest, the researchers ...

Fordyce's jar of bees led to the discovery that the Ithaca cemetery is home to one of the largest and oldest recorded aggregations of ground nesting bees in the world, with an estimated 5.5 million ...

North America's bee populations are in trouble, but don't blame the honey bees. While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees – those raised to help pollinate crops and produce ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled trials, colonies fed this specially ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should change what we think about one of the world’s most important animals. A ...