Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blue marked Queen of a Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica) colony is searching for a place to insert an egg. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The queen, on the right with a larger, darker body, is bigger than the worker bees in the colony and lives several times longer.

SEATTLE — They rule the roost and are key to strengthening the honey bee population in the face of climate change. So who’s got the guts to tell these queens to chill out? Enter Brandon Hopkins an ...

Every spring, Canadian beekeepers await the arrival of queen bees crucial to their industry. The queens that populate Canadian bee colonies through the season largely do not come from Canada at all.

A honey bee colony runs like a perfectly organised society, with the queen at its heart, laying eggs and producing pheromones that keep order. Yet sometimes, the workers take a shocking step and ...

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.

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 ...

Bees and pollinators are under attack in many ways. But they’re also showing resilience that seems outright incredible. Sabrina Rondeau, a postdoctoral fellow now at the University of Ottawa, made the ...