The Sacramento Bee mascot, Scoopy, keeps watch over The Bee office on Dec. 31, 2025. He’s got a lot to buzz about with our ...

Bee stings can cause pain, swelling, and, in some cases, allergic reactions. The sting site can swell for 48 hours after the sting, and swellings can vary in size. Symptoms should resolve in around a ...

A seemingly ordinary cemetery is a sprawling underground habitat for extraordinary numbers of bees.

Bee colonies are collapsing all over the world, threatening large parts of our food supply. But there's good news in the fight to slow their decline: the U.S. government has approved the use of the ...

Get an up-close look at stunning pollinators and the National Geographic Explorers whose work puts a spotlight on them.

Serum sickness is a reaction similar to an allergy, though often it does not occur as quickly as an allergic reaction. Serum sickness can be caused by exposure to certain medications, some snake ...

Researchers at Cornell University believe about 5.56 million bees emerged in spring 2023 to mate and forage ...

Sweat bees are a species of bee that live alone in underground hives or nests. Female sweat bees can sting people. As their name suggests, they’re attracted to people’s sweat (but they eat pollen from ...

Flowering plants make pollen as their main way to reproduce. When bees are looking for nectar to make honey, they collect pollen and store it as food for the bee colony. Bee pollen has been used for ...