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, ...

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 ...

Professor John Hafernik of San Francisco State University doesn’t leave home without an empty vial in his pocket. Entomology isn’t just a job; it’s a way of life, and Hafernik never knows when he’ll ...

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Honeybees are being threatened and attacked by a parasite that actually lays its eggs in their bodies. When they're infected, the bees exhibit a "Living Dead" type of behavior. Now ...

What's that creepy buzzing sound coming from the graveyard ground? It's the royal zombee queen! She's leading her ghastly green swarm towards the town. "Have they come to eat your brains?" the ...

VERMONT – It may sounds like the plot of a horror movie. The flying dead is no joke for bee keepers in Vermont. The latest state to see the arrival of Zombie bees. Cantrell, a Burlington beekeeper, ...

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 ...