By MARK BLISS Southeast Missourian Grant Gillard carefully pulls out a wooden frame from a box crowded with bees. The frame, one of several in the box, is covered with a honeycomb. Even on a cold ...

The humble bee — nuisance, threat, and linchpin of the American food supply — has won over the leader of the free world. And now President Obama is intervening on the bee’s behalf as its ...

Humble Bee is an early stage biotech startup company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It is studying the Australian masked bee, from the hylaeus genus, whose nesting material is similar to plastic.