The 2008 drama film The Secret Life of Bees is based on Sue Monk Kidd’s 2001 novel of the same name. One of the most famous aspects of The Secret Life of Bees is Queen Latifah’s widely praised ...

Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees might have been written with the calculation of getting chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. (It wasn’t, though it did make Good Morning America‘s reading list.) The ...

On the front porch of an old Coast Guard station on Appledore Island, seven miles off the southern coast of Maine, Thomas Seeley and I sat next to 6,000 quietly buzzing bees. Seeley wore a giant pair ...

South Carolina, 1964. Lily Owens, a restless white teenager, struggles with her merciless father and the haunting memory of her mother's death. When Rosaleen, her black caregiver, is beaten and jailed ...

The “hive mind” of honeybees is often lauded as an exemplar that humans should strive to emulate. Much scholarship on the insects explores them as a “superorganism”—one animal as a collective, rather ...

Margarita Lopez-Uribe reveals how squash bees evolved to thrive on our modern farms. Pollination gets personal when Shane meets Margarita Lopez-Uribe, an entomologist who studies squash bees — a wild, ...