Hope is on the horizon. On Jan. 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture granted a conditional license for Dalan Animal Health’s new honey bee foulbrood vaccine, in the first immunization for ...

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are helping to protect honey bee populations while developing new strategies ...

Honey bee pollination is critical for food production ... with the agency saying about 35% of the world's food crops depend on animal pollinators to produce. Crops that depend on honey bees ...

Using the well-studied European honey bee genome as a reference ... future species invasions and understand what allows some animals to succeed over others, we need more research like this ...

Bee colonies are collapsing all over the world, threatening large parts of our food supply. But there's good news in the fight to slow their decline: the U.S. government has approved the use of ...

Foraging for wild honey is a tricky business. Bee nests are hard to find, and their inhabitants swarm and sting to defend themselves. But in a rare and millennia-old collaboration, honey hunters ...

Considered one of the most fearless animals in the world, the Honey badger is famous for its strength, ferocity and toughness ...

These man-made boxes, designed to facilitate pollination and honey production in an era before animal welfare was considered, are the hives in which scientists study honey bees.

Bees are fascinating intelligent and sentient insects whose cognitive and emotional lives are currently receiving the attention they have long deserved from serious card-carrying scientists. 1 I ...

The animals are seldom deterred by bee stings. “I got lucky this year and had a 100% survival rate, I’m very thankful” said Lauren Doninger of Yellow House Honey in Hamden. “I know others ...