New test helps beekeepers identify disease-resistant honey bee colonies, offering hope amid rising hive losses across the ...

Honey bees are dying at alarming rates across the United States. Beekeepers in the United States lost more than 55 percent of ...

Brood clutches are much smaller than those of colonizing bees with a dozen or fewer egg chambers per nest. Once an egg is deposited, bees spend up to 11 months underground, developing as larvae ...

Researchers at Arizona State University, University of Maryland and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France have found that adult bees use ... linked to young brood may have ...

Honey bees are dying at alarming rates across the United States. Beekeepers in the United States lost more than 55 percent of managed colonies last year. A new study supports a novel method for ...

Helping beekeepers identify hygienic behavior—the ability to identify unhealthy brood—is part of this process. "It's definitely more desirable for a beekeeper to have bees that are better ...