(CBS News) - It might sound like an unusual choice for a pet, but sugarbag bees are becoming favorite companions for families in Australia. Saverio Russo with the Billion Bees Foundation says when ...

Discover the world of stingless bees, unique pollinators that produce medicinal pot honey and live in vibrant tropical ...

The mystery of what creates the rare, healthy sugar found in stingless bee honey, has been solved by researchers at The University of Queensland, in collaboration with Queensland Health Forensic and ...

Stingless bees in the Brisbane, Australia area are inciting turf wars, which have already resulted in numerous drone fatalities and hive takeovers. According to a study in the American Naturalist ...

In this video, we demonstrate how to collect honey from Australian native bees using a honey super. How to remove a honey ...

Examination of honey from five different stingless bee species across Neotropical and Indo-Australian regions has enabled for the first time the identification of the unusual disaccharide trehalulose ...

When two species of Australia's stingless bees go to battle, an extraordinary amount of carnage ensues, according to a new study. During this extreme warfare, thousands of worker bees from both sides ...

We’ve departed from the glistening shores of Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef and spent the last two weeks learning about terrestrial ecology since I last wrote. We went from snorkeling daily to ...

Bees get a lot of good press. They pollinate our crops and in some cases, make delicious honey. But bees around the world face serious threats, and the public can help protect them. Of more than ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties ...

Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually ...

It’s not so much eternal life, more a case of instant death. Parasitic beetles that dare to invade the hive of certain stingless bees end up entombed forever in resin. “They’re stopped in their tracks ...