Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees might have been written with the calculation of getting chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. (It wasn’t, though it did make Good Morning America‘s reading list.) The ...

Bees are one of the bedrocks of life, pollenating plants that provide food necessary for all humans and animals to survive. In recent years, reports of bee populations dying off have spurred folks to ...

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, ...

South Carolina, 1964. Lily Owens, a restless white teenager, struggles with her merciless father and the haunting memory of her mother's death. When Rosaleen, her black caregiver, is beaten and jailed ...

The “hive mind” of honeybees is often lauded as an exemplar that humans should strive to emulate. Much scholarship on the insects explores them as a “superorganism”—one animal as a collective, rather ...

Bees might conjure flying through the air and feeding on flowers, but most wild bees spend part of their lives in the soil ...

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 ...