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Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex

As the number of bees and other pollinators falls, field pansies are adapting by fertilizing their own seeds, a new study found.

The Beekeepers Who Don’t Want You to Buy More Bees

In Slovenia and around the world, conservationists try — and mostly fail — to combat the widespread belief that honey bees are in danger.

Rise in Sightings of Honeybee Swarms Has U.K. Beekeepers Scrambling

It’s swarming season in Britain, with honeybee colonies splitting in half in search of new homes. This year, beekeepers say they are getting an unusually high number of swarm sightings.

A Sting Operation to Save Elephants, With No Stings

While live bees can be used as a deterrent to keep elephants away from farms, a new technology fills in for cases where a buzz without the sting is preferable.

Justin O. Schmidt, Entomologist Known as ‘King of Sting,’ Dies at 75

Studying the venom of bees, wasps and ants, he was stung hundreds of times and famously ranked the stings in a colorful pain scale index.