Somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 thousand years ago — about the time Haleakala was forming — a tiny bee arrived in the Hawaiian Islands. This bee was about the size of a grain of rice and ...

HONOLULU (AP) - Federal authorities on Friday added seven yellow-faced bee species, Hawaii's only native bees, for protection under the Endangered Species Act, a first for any bees in the United ...

More than $1.7 million in additional federal funding will be awarded to Hawaii to help protect native forest birds, waterbirds, seabirds, and yellow-faced bees, according to U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz.

On Monday, May 20, we celebrate bees. But bees are still threatened by human activity and land development, and since nearly 90% of the world's flowering plant species depend at least partly on animal ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service placed 49 species on the federal endangered list in 2016 but has yet to designate their protective critical habitat. The Hawaiian damselfly is one of the endangered ...

Finally — some good news for the bees of Hawaii. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has given endangered status to seven species of yellow-faced bees native to the islands. These are "the first bees ...

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources will receive federal funding to help protect yellow-faced bees and endangered native birds on Maui and other islands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

No, the buzzing you hear isn’t the iPhone in your pocket. It’s a honey bee—and the impact it has on pollinating the crops you eat is worth its slightly obnoxious presence. The importance of bees to ...