Heading into August, beekeepers across Ontario and Canada learned they’d receive a boost to improve their honey bee colonies ...

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are not native to the Americas but originated in Africa and were eventually brought here by European settlers. They do not hibernate. So how do they survive our cold ...

ABSTRACT The western or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the primary managed pollinator in US agricultural systems, and its importance for food production is widely recognized. However, the role ...

Swampscott Conservancy You’re probably familiar with European or western honeybees (Apis mellifera) given that the popularity of keeping them is on the rise in suburban and even urban gardens. As the ...

A new study studies social interactions among honey bees (Apis mellifera) and finds that some bees, like some humans, display more social behavior.

There are multiple subspecies of Apis mellifera. It was one of these, the East African lowland honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata), that was imported to Brazil in the 1950s.

From there, the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) expanded independently into Africa and Europe creating seven separate geographically and genetically distinct evolutionary lineages traceable ...

What followed was the introduction of many plants and animals brought over on ships. The European honey bee (Apis mellifera) was one of them. But unlike other introduced species we collectively agree ...

The Native Irish Honey Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera) is a strain of the Dark European Honey Bee which was once widespread across Northern Europe. Tragically they are now scarce in most areas due to ...