Africanized honey bees are a hybrid species that originated in Brazil and have spread to 13 southern and southwestern U.S. states. Known as "killer bees," their danger comes from their highly ...

Managed honeybee population stocks are declining in many countries, worrying scientists, the public and politicians. This decline affects us all, as it poses a risk to food security. Honeybees can be ...

Apiculturist Warwick Kerr figured he had some perfectly good reasons for bringing 20 African queen bees into his native Brazil nine years ago. Though it is known to be ferocious, the African bee ...

A viral video shows hundreds of Africanized honey bees packed inside an abandoned metal pipe in Arizona, all locked in perfect unison, wings beating furiously in the same direction. Their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heads up, Florida. Along with alligators, Burmese pythons and Asian needle ants, now killer bees are spreading across the state — ...

African bees trying to block beetles from damaging the hive end up inadvertently feeding them. Chamanti Laing, Social Insects Research Group Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free ...