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, ...

If you've ever seen bees flying around at night, there's a good chance they're so-called "ZomBees"—honey bees whose brains are under the control of tiny fly larvae growing inside their bodies. Yes, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...