Bees may seem like uninvited guests at your picnic -- but before you shoo them away from the fruit salad, think twice, as they play a critical role in making your picnic possible.
Have you had enough bee terror by now? The bees certainly have.
"Mistletoe and Holly" is a holiday masterpiece. But I know the biology of those two plants that Mr. Sinatra croons about... and that makes me wonder: Is there more to this song than standard Christmas cheer?
Stan Brown of Cumberland, Maine, is nearly 93 years old, one of America's oldest registered beekeepers.
Because he lives in a 21-story building and "bees don't like high rises too much" (too windy), Guillermo Fernandez keeps bees in a tiny public garden below Wall Street, next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Published: 05/14/2012 06:15 PM EDT on LiveScience With massive dinosaurs towering above, tiny fem...
Bees are making headlines these days, and not in a positive way. Colony collapse disorder has cut through honeybee populations, with some beekeepers r...
The plight of the honeybees is our plight. In much the same way as the bees are lost on their way home, we have also lost our way.
In a new study, researchers have found that a Cuban rainforest vine has evolved dish-shaped leaves to help attract the bats which pollinate the plant....
LONDON -- Scientists are showing off a little-known property of some common garden flowers: They're iridescent, meaning that light shimmers off them l...
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? looks at possible causes of colony collapse disorder as well as the millennia-old relationship between bees and humans that had been so mutually beneficial for so long.
If we all channeled candidate Obama and inflated our tires properly, we could save nearly as much oil as we are likely to discover by pursuing the offshore drilling plan President Obama recently introduced.
Basically, the bees are bailing on us. And without their powers of pollination, a wide range of crops, from almonds to zucchinis, could be about to vanish from our lives, along with the bees.
