In 2024, Schmalzel led a Prescott Bee Club field trip to the confluence of the Verde River and Oak Creek near the Alcantara Vineyard and Prescott National Forest to study some of the honey bee colony ...

People searching for honey in Mozambique work with birds via a shared language in a rare case of cooperation between humans ...

There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...

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There are nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States, contributing to pollination in agricultural, urban and natural landscapes. Honey bees, however, are not native to the U.S., which has ...

Potentially deadly viruses in the pollinators are closely linked to the flowers they visit and the availability of flowering ...

It might be hard to think of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) as a forest creature. Most of us picture honey bees in the context of hives in wooden boxes, managed by beekeepers in heavy white jumpsuits.

Africanized honey bees, better known as killer bees, aren’t your garden-variety buzzers. They play a crucial role as pollinators in Arizona’s ecosystem, but these bees have a serious side: their ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 14, 2021) In a prime example of cart-before-the-horse, greenwashing, or perhaps “beewashing,” a British company has badly missed the mark in its latest attempt to market a ...

Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, according to researchers who analyzed seasonal trends of parasite and virus transmission in bees. Honey bees may ...

More flowers should mean healthier bees, right? Not always. Scientists studying wild bees in Israel have discovered that greater flower diversity can sometimes increase viral infections rather than ...

In this image from "Wild Honey Bees," worker bees in Germany load up with water that they'll use to cool their colony’s nest on a hot day. (Ingo Arndt Photography/Reprinted by permission of Princeton ...