Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that ...

Europe’s wild bees and butterflies are facing an escalating extinction crisis, a new conservation assessment has warned, prompting urgent calls for action to reverse the “dire” state of these vital ...

Newlyweds traveling through the Arizona desert were supposed to be celebrating the happiest time of their lives. Instead, their honeymoon ended in tragedy when they stopped their car along Bumble Bee ...

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...

One of these caught fish, while the others didn't / Photo by Ken Baldwin Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect ...

She’d gone through a difficult divorce and was living paycheck to paycheck in the Hill Country with her three-year-old daughter. She’d moved four times in one year. One day in 1987, her parents asked ...

The surefire way to know whether it’s a sweat bee or a corn fly buzzing around is if it stings. The halictid bee stings, but the corn fly, also called a hover fly, does not. “They’re mimics of bees, ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that what bumble bees choose ...

In March, four Indonesian men filed a landmark lawsuit in the U.S. against canned tuna giant Bumble Bee Foods, accusing the company of profiting from abuse and exploitation aboard Chinese-owned ...

The former Showley Bros. Candy Factory on 10th Avenue, now Bumble Bee’s headquarters. (File photo by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) Human-rights groups were shocked in March by lawsuit ...

The plaintiffs allege they endured physical abuse, debt bondage, dangerous working conditions and denial of medical care while working on fishing vessels that supplied tuna to Bumble Bee, according to ...

Four Indonesian villagers who say they were subjected to physical abuse and forced labor while working as fishermen for San Diego-based Bumble Bee Foods sued the canned tuna company Wednesday in what ...