We are most likely to notice the honeybee and the bumblebee, but North America is home to more than 4,000 species of bee. Take a look at some of the other species, which sport some surprising colors! Wired talked to Sam...

Honeybees are pretty talented, but they didn't come up with...  ...loo of the University of Cardiff managed to catch honeybees in the act of cell building wax cells. The newest...

Dogs are employed as sniffers for all sorts of job...  ...e specialty is a dog trained to detect disease in honeybees , particularly a nasty-sounding ailment called Ame...

In Croatia, unexploded mines dot the landscape and...  ...ew animal is being trained to locate them for us: honeybees .Nikola Kezic, an expert on the behavior of honeybees , sat quietly together with a group of young resea...

Honeybees in a hive have fairly identical genes. The queen...

(Video Link) Two guys are trying to move a honey bee colony without any specialized equipment. One is calm and confident; the other is nervous and uncertain. Judging from the conversation, they've been in situations...

(YouTube link) YouTube member Beekalmer added s...  ...es to her backyard birdbath to make it easier for honeybees to get water. Parts of this video are in slow mot...  ...in slow motion so you can get a good look at how honeybees drink.

Bees have an impressive sense of smell and New Zealand biologists now believe they may be able to train them to help identify people with tuberculosis by the faint floral odor victims of the disease develop. “When we...

The next time you have a pesky swarm of bees in your back yard, don’t call the exterminator. According to a recent study, apparently all you have to do is pull out your iPhone. The calls act as an instinctive warning...

Way back in 2007, we posted an item about how cell phones might be responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder, which is affecting the world honeybee population. Now, scientists in India have published results of an experim...