Where wasps are hunters and scavengers, bees are vegetarians, feeding themselves and their offspring entirely on the nectar and pollen found in flowers. Everyone knows that honeybees live in hives ...

At WorkThese photos, which show a natural honeybee nest, add clarity to the way honeybees live in the wild. Here, worker bees construct new comb out of beeswax as others zoom into the woodpecker ...

William Whiskerson learns all about the different types of bees that live in a beehive and discovers how bees make honey from plant nectar and store it in honeycombs.

Crops that depend on pollination are five times more valuable than those that do not. Social bees, such as honeybees and bumblebees, often live in hives or nests, above or below the ground, while most ...