It was a dark December night, which is why the lights were on outside the biology building at San Francisco State University, where a professor named John Hafernik studies bees, butterflies, beetles, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few years ago, John Hafernik detected in the walls of his house a thrumming hive of honeybees. He didn’t place a frantic call to ...

VERMONT – It may sounds like the plot of a horror movie. The flying dead is no joke for bee keepers in Vermont. The latest state to see the arrival of Zombie bees. Cantrell, a Burlington beekeeper, ...

Tiny parasitic flies are threatening honeybee populations by turning the bees zombie-like, lurching and staggering around and sometimes abandoning their hives, researchers say. Such "zombees" have ...

Biologists at San Francisco State University have begun tagging so-called 'Zombees' with tiny radio trackers, to better understand when they abandon their hives and where they go when they do. A ...

What's the best way to celebrate the spookiest time of year? By doing some citizen science! In the spirit of the season, we’re highlighting five projects on SciStarter that impart science with a ...

This bee is not having a good day. Alain C. Bees are having a really, really bad time right now. They're being killed by mites, by viruses, by spores. They're malnourished by the monoculture, they're ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been a vocal critic of the U.S.-led West’s support for Ukraine. In his statements, Orban rejected EU sanctions on Russia, calling for their removal and a ...