A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or ...

In honey bees, the role a bee plays in the colony changes as they age. Younger bees perform duties inside the hive, such as nursing and wax building, while older bees transition to roles outside of ...

New research shows honeybee queens need more than royal jelly. Special wax chambers and dedicated worker bees help shape ...

For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal ...

A journey into Estonia’s beekeeping traditions, the genetics of its honey bees and the growing craft of queen bee rearing.

There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...

California-based Beewise invented the BeeHome, a robotic, AI-directed beehive that growers can rent. Cameras connect with AI software that monitors each individual bee and identifies its needs. 40% of ...

A discovery of bees in East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York, led to a huge conservation initiative to protect pollinator ...

Collective behaviors are present across many different animal groups: schools of fish swimming in a swirling pattern together, large flocks of birds migrating through the night, groups of bees ...