A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the ...

Bees play a crucial role in our ecosystem, pollinating plants and helping produce food. To stay healthy and productive, bees ...

Bees may be more nutritionally selective than scientists realized, adjusting how much they eat when pollen contains an ...

A new study by University of Maryland entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s. When ...

Honeybees are among the planet's most vital creatures, yet a quirk of their anatomy turns every act of self-defense into a death sentence. Understanding what actually happens when a bee stings reveals ...

You may be spotting bodies of dead bumblebees lying across pavements near you in the summer months. There are several reasons ...

This gorgeous and noteworthy book provides a very different view of honey bees and how they live in the wild and offers important lessons for saving the world’s managed bee colonies We have never ...

Honeybee queens are the lifeline of their colonies, so scientists were stunned to discover they are deliberately poisoning their own eggs. The reason why reveals a desperate survival strategy with ...

When bees tasted sweet sugar water, they extended their tongues as if humans were savoring a flavor. When they encountered ...

Some animals are able to use iron-based magnetic compounds such as magnetite to detect and navigate via the Earth’s magnetic field – a sense called magnetoreception. We considered magnetism in the ...