A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the ...

Did you know that honey bees are not native to the United States?

Thousands of honey bees are hard at work on a warm, summer day. It's one of 50 healthy honey bee colonies at Carol Fassbinder-Orth's farm outside Glenwood, Iowa.She's been around bees her entire life, ...

The Honeybee Discovery Center is set to unveil its new Bee-Mobile with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 20 at 3:15 p.m. The event will take place at their downtown location ...

Pollinators like the blue orchard bee live in a natural symbiosis with farmers, because crops rely on them to reproduce. In return, the pollinators receive flower nectar that gives them energy to fly.

Bees are, in many ways, the darlings of the insect world. Not only do they play a crucial role in thriving ecosystems, but they’re also harbingers of the worsening consequences of climate change. To ...

From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner ...

Bees have much better vision than was previously known, offering new insights into the lives of honey bees, and new opportunities for translating this knowledge into fields such as robot vision, ...

Bumblebees have a way of looking both adorable and slightly overserved, wobbling from flower to flower like fuzzy little potatoes. They seem simple, almost carefree. But a new study suggests there’s ...

In the photos (from left): Pollination ecologist Neal Williams checks the nesting site of blue orchard bees; male leafcutter bee peers over a rock purslane blossom; and a female sunflower bee forages ...