Honey bees follow personal and highly precise flight routes using landmarks and memory, according to new research.

A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioral biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the ...

For decades, people have repeated a peculiar claim: that honeybees (and especially bumblebees) shouldn't be able to fly. According to conventional aerodynamic models, their chunky bodies and ...

To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that ...

A. Research by Karl von Frisch, which won him a Nobel prize in 1973, delineated the well-known “waggle dance” performed by the returning honeybee to help communicate the location and distance of a ...

Like a duck that, on the surface, looks like it is calmly floating on the water while paddling furiously underneath, a bumble bee hovering over a flower may look like it’s not doing much to the naked ...