Its name is short — like its size — but bees are one of Earth's most important and busy creatures.
Bees in a hive in San Diego, Calif. Beekeeping has been a practice for thousands of years.
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Their honeycomb monitoring device has built-in cameras that track the health of the queen, bee activity, the onset of diseases…
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A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5…
Bees pollinate 75% of the world's key crops.
As bee population collapses, US apiarists fear research cuts
