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.

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 ...

And many wild bees are even more sensitive to pesticides, compounding the problem, the research showed. "When we only focus on the western honeybee, we're ignoring the unique responses of other ...

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 ...

By Shelby Carroll N.C. Cooperative Extension Hurricane Helene, which struck western North Carolina in late September 2024, caused unprecedented damage to the region’s agriculture. The storm’s ...