Everyone knows honey comes from bees: They pollinate flowers by drinking the nectar and bringing it back to their hive where all the magic happens. However, if you were under the impression that all ...

Humans have loved honey for thousands of years -- both as a sticky, sweet treat and as a savory ingredient. A staple of household pantries and the finest restaurants, there are many reasons why honey ...

Honey is a sweetener, but it’s more than simply sweet. The flavor of raw, unpasteurized honey is a direct reflection of the land. Each drop is a story of where the honeybees forage and pollinate; each ...

The following six families of bees are found in the New York City area: the Colletidae (18 species), Halictidae (46 species), Andrenidae (63 species), Melittidae (3 species, although these have not ...

Essential to plant and human life, bees play a key role in pollinating the food we eat, but they are facing a crisis. Founded ...

Scientists are increasingly drawn to unmanaged colonies of this species, which use a variety of strategies to protect themselves when left to live on their own ...

Dr. Edward Burkett displays a naturally-formed honeycomb in June. In this type of bee hive, the honey bees were encouraged to make combs from scratch as they would in the wild, rather than on a frame.

There are at least 20,000 types of bees in the world but only the honey bee makes honey. Humans have been eating honey and using beeswax for at least 9,000 years. Humans have domesticated the honey ...

In the 1970s, laboratory honey bees generally lived for over a month. But now, according to new research published in Scientific Reports, lab-kept bees only live about two weeks. The halving of the ...