Spring has sprung on the western slope, and festival season has begun across the Grand Valley which is creating quite the ...

Get the buzz with amazing honey bee facts. Get answers to frequently asked questions about these honey producing pollinators.

Regular readers of this column will know that, in general, I struggle to muster much affection for non-native species, ...

RNAi – functions specifically to silence, or deactivate, genes. Among other applications, it promises to be groundbreaking as ...

One-on-one, a western honeybee is no match for a European hornet. Up to an inch and a half long, the hornet is equipped with powerful mandibles capable of shearing smaller insects to pieces.

Family-oriented and nest-proud, these bees will aggressively defend their hive, and they have a tendency to go all out when responding to a threat. In 1956, Brazilian geneticist Dr Warwick E Kerr ...

Honeybee officials are raising the alarm about severe colony losses over the past few months. The extent of the bee deaths is still being tallied, but one estimate suggests more than a million col ...

Bees, particularly honeybees, are crucial for plant pollination and agricultural production, with the Western honeybee being the most preferred species globally, contributing significantly to ...