Honey bees follow personal and highly precise flight routes using landmarks and memory, according to new research.

As tiny insects, honey bees are consistently underestimated. These little guys are far more complex than most people realize. While their buzz might send you ducking for cover, honey bees aren’t much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of ...

Did you know that there are more species of native bees living in Tucson than any other place in the world? That fun fact was just one of the hundreds shared at the ninth annual Arizona Insect ...

Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...

There are seven species of Apis honey bee in the world, all of them native to Asia, Europe, and Africa. Apis mellifera, the western honey bee, is the species recognized globally as “the honey bee.” ...

Sprinkled with pollen, buzzing bees fly from one blossom to another, collecting sweet nectar from brilliantly colored flowers. Bees tend to symbolize the pollination process, but there are many wild ...

Scientists report they can crank up insect aggression simply by interfering with a basic metabolic pathway in the insect brain. Their study, of fruit flies and honey bees, shows a direct, causal link ...

A research consortium, supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have announced the publication of a high-quality draft genome ...