About 35% of the world’s food crops rely on bees, making their decline one of the most urgent threats to human survival. It’s easy to swat at a bee buzzing near your picnic, but that tiny insect is ...

There are numerous alerts and alarms. We now know that bees are endangered throughout the world. What are the possible solutions? How can humans respond to this situation? There are many answers, some ...

In More Than Honey, Attica Boa's striking close-up photography helps visualize a story whose urgency needs no amplification: With global honeybee populations threatened, the world's food supply could ...

A little more than a decade ago, environmentalists and agriculturalists were sounding the alarm for bees. Some 10 million beehives had been lost in the previous years, and scientists weren’t ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Whom did you last thank for the food on your table? God? A farmer? Your spouse? Chances are, it wasn’t a bee. But according to Kate Franzman, it’s high time that changed. Franzman, 30, ...

To imagine a world without bees is to end up with a picture of a landscape looking like Mars, devoid of vegetation. Fortunately, we’re not there yet, but the honeybee — essential to agriculture ...

It takes a spy to hunt a spy.

It’s another environmental crisis we’re supposed to worry about. The media call it “bee-pocalypse” and “bee-mageddon.” A YouTube video with 15 million views says bee-mageddon “could lead to millions ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

It was three in the afternoon and over 30 degrees C, yet despite the heat there was not a drop of sweat on my body. The air was so dry that any perspiration was sucked from my pores before I even felt ...