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A commercial truck carrying 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives tipped over early Friday morning, releasing millions of bees in Whatcom County, just west of Lynden. As odd as the entire incident may seem ...

As a science cat, I don’t stir honey into my tea or drizzle it on my biscuits. I don’t have taste receptors for sweet things. Honey doesn’t have a taste to me. But my human friends gobble up the honey ...

Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their homes, too, with dramatic tactics like producing shimmering waves to stave ...

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Penn State’s Center for Pollinator Research has a new resource to help gardeners, beekeepers, and other bee-interested citizens keep track of how bees are doing in their neighborhood. Beescape is a ...

Africanized "killer" bees are a hybrid species known for aggressively defending their hives. Some 90%-100% of wild honey bee colonies in Arizona are Africanized. Killer bee attacks in Arizona have ...

IF YOU HAVEN’T watched the dance of bees, either in the hive or on clover or in the air, then you may not understand why they are so important. If we needed a perfect model for a society, we would ...