Wild queen bumblebees get killed by worker bees inside commercial hives after they are lured in by vibrant colors and the promise of usurping the resident queen. When you purchase through links on our ...

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If you think backyard and rooftop beehives are helping save the bees, think again, experts say. A growing body of research suggests that the explosion of urban beekeeping involving honeybees in many ...

When we picture beekeeping, most of us imagine jars of golden honey, gentle buzzes in summer gardens, and helpful pollinators doing their thing. However, behind the feel-good image of honeybees lies a ...

Since 2018, honeybees have feasted on wildflowers across a remote Italian island called Giannutri every spring. But for the last four years, Lorenzo Pasquali had the unusual task of shutting the ...

On a hot, pollen-dazed morning this summer, I stopped by the house of Gareth John, a retired agricultural ecologist, who lives on a quiet lane above a river in Oxfordshire, to take a look at his bees.

In Slovenia and around the world, conservationists try — and mostly fail — to combat the widespread belief that honey bees are in danger. Credit... Supported by By David Segal Photographs and Video by ...

Popular slogans and ad campaigns have urged the public to save honeybees. But reports suggest those efforts were directed at saving the wrong bees. For years now, conventional wisdom, popular slogans ...

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