COTONOU, Benin (AP) – On an epic journey through Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton braved an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Uganda, escaped a swarm of angry bees in Malawi ...

Apiculturist Warwick Kerr figured he had some perfectly good reasons for bringing 20 African queen bees into his native Brazil nine years ago. Though it is known to be ferocious, the African bee ...

Africanized honeybees, or "killer bees," are a cross between Western honeybees from Europe and East African lowland honeybees. Though they look like European honeybees, they are known for their ...

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The honeyguide bird loves beeswax, but needs help breaking open bees' nests to get it. So it shows a honey badger the way to the nest, who rips it open and together they share the rewards. Or so the ...

And then, on one unremarkable afternoon in 1957, somebody removed a screen from a beehive — and accidentally changed the ecology of two continents. The story of the Africanised honey bee is one of the ...