For centuries, honey bees have remained a fundamental sustainer of agriculture worldwide, pollinating more than 130 types of ...

Nevra Ledwon is harvesting the first honey of the season from the bee hives in her backyard in McLean. She has invited friends and neighbors who are interested in the process. They can just watch or ...

New research proving bumblebees exhibit emotion-like behaviors—previously thought to exist only in mammalian species—has ...

When drought conditions hit, researchers say some flowering plants get stressed and can alter their smell, colour and nectar ...

Bees are essential for pollinating many of our food crops and wild flowers, and a horticulturist says there is a specific ...

A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or become a large future queen built to survive winter and start a colony of her ...

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has urged households to add one flower to their gardens in July in order to invite more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State study finds worker bees help turn larvae into future queens by passing juvenile hormone in food. (CREDIT: Dmitry ...

Nature abounds with astonishing surprises. If someone were to imagine a member of the animal kingdom that can be trained to pull on a string to obtain a reward or rolls around little wooden balls ...

A fast-growing volunteer plant may look like just another weed, but removing it entirely could mean losing an important food ...

Guy Fieri has visited hundreds of restaurants over the years, but these pizza spots continue to stand out. Their pies have ...