Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees might have been written with the calculation of getting chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. (It wasn’t, though it did make Good Morning America‘s reading list.) The ...

This World Bee Day, take a closer look at the incredible first 21 days of a bee’s life. Using stunning close-up footage, the video follows a young honeybee from egg to adulthood while revealing the ...

Margarita Lopez-Uribe reveals how squash bees evolved to thrive on our modern farms. Pollination gets personal when Shane meets Margarita Lopez-Uribe, an entomologist who studies squash bees — a wild, ...

The “hive mind” of honeybees is often lauded as an exemplar that humans should strive to emulate. Much scholarship on the insects explores them as a “superorganism”—one animal as a collective, rather ...

With the care of a poet and wisdom of an ecologist living in harmony with—rather than domination of—the natural world, ...

Spring has arrived in the U.S., bringing its bright spectacle of budding trees and migrating birds, along with more subtle but equally important changes—among them the annual emergence of native bees.

On the front porch of an old Coast Guard station on Appledore Island, seven miles off the southern coast of Maine, Thomas Seeley and I sat next to 6,000 quietly buzzing bees. Seeley wore a giant pair ...