Seven types of bees once found in abundance in Hawaii but now facing extinction on Friday became the first bees to be added to the federal list of endangered and threatened species, according to U.S.

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about ...

There could be between 3,700 and 5,200 undiscovered bee species buzzing around in the world, according to a new study that offers a “treasure map” for finding new varieties of the pollinators. But ...

The world has far more bees than anyone realized. Scientists have, for the first time, estimated just how many species of ...

Spring has finally arrived in the U.S., bringing its bright spectacle of budding trees and migrating birds, along with more subtle but equally important changes—among them, the first emergence of ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as ...