Recently, the wild honeybees, Apis mellifera, found in Europe have been officially declared endangered for the first time.

You might think honeybees are thriving – after all, the honey industry is growing and its bees are well looked after by ...

Conservationists warn bees and butterflies are at risk of disappearing for good - More than 20 per cent of both bumblebee and ...

Nearly 100 more wild bee species are now considered threatened, bringing the total to 172 out of 1,928 assessed, research ...

The IUCN warns that climate change is affecting more than half (52%) of Europe's fragile butterfly species, and the severely ...

Dozens of new species are at risk of extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which has ...

BRUSSELS — More than a fifth of Europe's bumblebee species and one in 10 of its wild bee species overall risk becoming ...

The survival of Europe’s wild pollinators is increasingly at risk, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ...

Researchers engineered yeast to produce the key sterols in floral pollen, which may help struggling beekeepers and their ...

For the first time, wild honeybees in Europe have been officially declared endangered within the European Union, this hints ...

Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. It's a workout in what feels like a sauna as the late-morning June temperatures ...

The news that native bees are cut from a different cloth has important implications for conservation practices and may also ...