A growing body of experimental evidence shows that common termiticides do not simply poison individual termites but ...

Several insect species, including ants, honeybees and termites, live in highly organized societies, also known as social ...

“Bugonia” opens not with action, but with a conversation: two men, Don and Teddy, talking about bees. Teddy explains colony collapse disorder: a phenomenon where bees abandon their queen, leaving the ...

Colony collapse, in the biological context of eusocial insects such as honey bees, denotes a process in which a previously functional colony undergoes rapid, systemic breakdown of social organization ...

Honeybees are dying. In the winter of 2012-2013, one-third of U.S. honeybee colonies died or disappeared, a 42 percent increase from the year before and well above the 10-15 percent losses beekeepers ...

Philip Gerrie lives in Noe Valley with, as he puts it, “a spouse, two cats, and 100,000 bees.” The past president of the San Francisco Beekeepers' Association is a soft-spoken man who calmly notes ...