Some 60,000 Italian honeybees live, and work, on a rooftop at The Times’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters. By Megan McCrea Megan McCrea visited the New York Times hives with the beekeepers who take ...

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, ...

Steve Backshall looks at aspects of 270 bee species in the UK, from the industrious honeybee to the bold bumble bee. The presenter examines the history, science and habitats of these extraordinary ...

Over 17 years after the release of their 2008 film The Secret Life of Bees, Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah joined forces once again to present the awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a ...

Researchers found that specific brain circuits help decide which jobs bees perform as they age. When those circuits were switched off, older worker bees began caring for the queen again instead of ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should change what we think about one of the world’s most important animals. A ...

As a designated National Geographic Explorer, Bertie Gregory traverses the globe documenting wild life in all its complexity. Tuesday’s “Secrets of the Bees” is a two-part look at one of our most ...

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 ...