Swarming honey bees send out scouts to find suitable nests, measure them for fitness against a list of criteria such as height off the ground, volume, entrance size, and entrance location.

This is the instant karma moment a bee hunter was trapped on a burning tree after setting fire to a beehive. Sukrit had secretly climbed a tree to collect honey from a bee nest near the Wat ...

Even if you put on a beekeeping suit and climb 60 feet up into the forest canopy where bees like to nest, as Arndt did in 2018, “the most exciting stuff is happening inside the tree,” he says.

Scientists say the bees' temperament is to ward off predators. But unsuspecting humans will find them to be aggressive, ...

Highly aggressive Africanized honey bees, the so-called "killer bees," are moving north and spreading as climate change ...

Honey bees, originally a tropical insect, colonised cold climates 600,000 years ago by evolving complex behaviour patterns for finding and selecting nest cavities in trees. Swarming honey bees ...