Washington State University entomologists announced this week that commercial honey bee colony losses are projected to reach ...

Although Africanized honey bees are rarely the "killer bees" of 1970s Movie-of-the-Week fame, they are decidedly more aggressive than their European cousins. Research conducted in Venezuela in 1982 ...

Losses of commercial honey bee colonies are projected to be the highest on record in the last decade, according to Washington ...

Africanised bees are notorious in the Americas for their aggressive behaviour, but these fierce little pollinators may be the answer to declining honeybee numbers. Their demeanour has earned them the ...

Africanized bees, also called killer bees, look like normal honey bees but are far more aggressive. They are responsible for hundreds of human deaths since the strain first emerged in Brazil in ...

a honey bee research nonprofit. Commercial beekeepers across the nation lost about 62% of their bees — with no apparent reason — in the same period, the survey also said. The financial losses ...

To understand why losing them is such a problem, we need to understand what bees do for us in the first place. Of course we know that some species produce honey, without which the world would be a ...

Stingless bees produce a healthier honey, uniquely rich in a rare sugar, called trehalulose, which may have benefits ranging from ranking low on the glycaemic index (GI) to displaying antioxidant ...

Africanized bees received the nickname "killer bees" because of their aggressive defense against any threat that is perceived to the safety of the hive or the hive's queen, NPS said. "Many victims ...