If you’re understandably feeling sympathetic to the honey bee, rest assured that this only happens to female honey bees, as males do not sting. Patriarchy at it once again. Despite having such a ...

Vermont native bees are a very different creature than the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and, some biologists point out, ...

There’s only one queen in healthy hives, plus 2,000 to 60,000 female workers that collect ... There are more than 20 subspecies of western honey bee, none of which are native to North America.