The bee is one of nature’s most prolific pollinators. There are over 20,000 bee species, most of which spread pollen between flowers. Bees can be divided into groups based on their social behavior.

The footage shows a gold-toned bumblebee bobbing its dot-sized head, flittering its antenna, and performing rapid wingbeats while sitting inside a wallow pool of tawny-colored filaments that, viewers ...

Because honey bees are larger than most native bee species in Southern California, the new study calculated that honey bees now comprise 98% of all bee biomass in this ecosystem. If the pollen and ...

Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California by monopolizing pollen sources and overwhelming native pollinators. A ...

If the pollen and nectar used to create honey bee biomass were instead converted to native bees, populations of native bees would be expected to be roughly 50 times larger than they are currently.

A study led by UC San Diego biologists is calling attention to the availability of food for bees in the Southwestern U.S. Non-native honey bees, the study found, extract an overwhelming majority of ...

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A proposal in the California Legislature would pay for more research to save honey bees, but it could be a tough sell amid a budget deficit.

Encouragingly, native stingless bee honey last year gained approval from Food Standards Australia New Zealand, paving the way for national and international commercialization.