The 2008 drama film The Secret Life of Bees is based on Sue Monk Kidd’s 2001 novel of the same name. One of the most famous aspects of The Secret Life of Bees is Queen Latifah’s widely praised ...

BALTIMORE --Rooftop bee colonies are starting to be featured in Baltimore City's rooftop green spaces. Recently, the University of Maryland Baltimore hosted a beekeeper to educate its community about ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. For most of us, the buzz from a beehive is a warning. To Caitlin Rose Kenney, however, it’s Zen. A year ago, ...

Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees might have been written with the calculation of getting chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. (It wasn’t, though it did make Good Morning America‘s reading list.) The ...

A Hunt’s bumblebee queen occupies a white flower in Laramie. Michael Dillon, a professor in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, recently received a three-year, $398,251 National Science ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Bees built their homes in cliffs long before ...

Pollinators is a broad term that includes all animals that transfer pollen, which contains DNA, from one flower to another. The most well-known pollinators are European honeybees, but pollinators also ...

IOWA(KWWL)-- America’s native bees are in trouble, and a part of the risk could be coming from the honey bee. Experts say there are more honey bees now than ever before, but that comes at the same ...

The homeland of the federally endangered rusty patched bumble bee has shrunk by 90% in the past 20 years, yet the beneficial, fuzzy native bee can still be found in the backyards of Milwaukee. Once ...

Urban wild bees carry microbial signatures in their guts that reveal stresses of city living, from limited food to pollution ...

Margarita Lopez-Uribe reveals how squash bees evolved to thrive on our modern farms. Pollination gets personal when Shane meets Margarita Lopez-Uribe, an entomologist who studies squash bees — a wild, ...