The swarming season for honeybees in South Africa has begun. The summer months and spring are usually when bees reproduce and ...

As that point approaches, worker bees build special “queen cups,” round wax chambers that look like peanuts and rise above the familiar hexagonal wax cells. The queen lays eggs in those cells, and the ...

From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tens of thousands of bees ...