This is not the plot of a new Game of Thrones spinoff, but a common and violent reality in honey bee colonies. As with any ...

New research shows that viruses weaken honey bee queens, lowering pheromone signals and energy, causing workers to replace them.

A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such ...

The research team found that common viruses can damage a queen’s ovaries, reducing both her egg-laying rate and the ...

In chess, the queen is the most valuable piece for a player. She’s capable of making any move, which also makes her the most protected after the king. In a bee colony, the queen holds the same rank.

Honey bee colonies have a surprising way of ensuring survival. When a queen bee weakens due to virus infection, her pheromone ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

The year is 2016, and a lot of people at the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee are about ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Allan Hazel runs his beekeeping operation, A.P.'s Back Beach Bees, on Sullivan's Island with his ...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- Every hive needs its queen, and with 2.3 million honeybee hives engaged in commercial pollination and honey production in the U.S., queen breeders such as Mark Sundberg are ...