For our food systems, the rise of the honey bee has been an unqualified success. For our ecosystems, though, there is plenty ...

Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground. And like many of their counterparts that nest above ...

A honeybee research organization estimates as many as 1.6 million hives - more than half the country’s cultivated honeybee ...

Numerous species are capable of pollinating plants. The Western honey bee, apis mellifera, didn’t even exist in the Americas before Columbus. However, it does the job better than any other species.

It measures approximately 3–4 mm. Unlike the introduced European honey bee (Apis mellifera), which lives in large, highly organised colonies with complex social structures, L. dotatum exhibits ...