Bees are out and about all summer long, dancing across lavender beds and hovering around honeysuckle vines. We're used to coexisting with these important pollinators during warmer months, but when the ...

A severe shortage of bees has kicked off an initiative to build a thousand hives as a deadly parasite threatens to wipe out ...

Aston University researchers have engineered vegan honey formulations containing methylglyoxal and hydrogen ...

Vegan honey alternatives could be engineered to have similar antimicrobial properties to prized mānuka honey from New Zealand, according to research ...

Honeybees are pushing wild pollinators away from flowers, raising concerns about competition for food and the impact of ...

Vegan honey alternatives could be engineered to have similar antimicrobial properties to prized mānuka honey from New Zealand ...

Vegan honey alternatives could be engineered to have antimicrobial properties similar to those of prized mānuka honey from ...

Dr Jonathan Cox, senior lecturer in biosciences, led the research to test specially made formulations of vegan honey against ...

The stinger of a western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a weapon of last resort, designed to embed itself and deposit venom in ...

Honey bees are known to leave their stingers embedded in tender flesh once they sting you and fly away. Scientists have now ...

It’s rare for honey bees to sting people. How they do it is even more unusual. Other venomous creatures—snakes, spiders, ...

Australian scientists have used high-speed video to uncover the unique mechanism that allows a honey bee's stinger to ...