The genetically modified bacteria spark an RNAi response in the parasite that leads to self-destruction—and perhaps a path to combatting colony collapse disorder.

US honeybee colonies took the largest hit since the Bee Informed Partnership started counting in 2006.

A high school student designs a new beehive and gets help from machine learning to monitor for varroa mite infestation.

Researchers record neurological changes in a region called the mushroom body in the brains of bees completing a maze in a virtual environment.

A bee researcher finds that his subjects are protected from viral infections when they dine on fungus.

Revered as a humanitarian and scientist, Kerr was also blamed for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees to the Americas.

Glyphosate perturbs the balance of gut bacteria in honey bees and increases the insects’ susceptibility to lethal infection.

A study of chemical tags on histone proteins hints at how the same genome can yield very different animals.

The insects correctly ordered an absence of black dots as “less than” a group of black dots.