A queen bee's life begins with one of the most dramatic battles in the insect world, where only a single ruler can survive.

A 1957 experiment in Brazil was meant to create better honey bees, but the escape of 26 queen bees led to the spread of Africanized honey bees across two continents.

UK bees face grave danger from ever increasing summer temperatures, and unwelcome pests. But one man is on a mission to save ...

Scientists found that a common pesticide altered ovarian genes and sharply reduced egg production in bumblebees even when the ...

Some 60,000 Italian honeybees live, and work, on a rooftop at The Times’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters. By Megan McCrea Megan McCrea visited the New York Times hives with the beekeepers who take ...

On Wednesday, it wasn’t just the usual crowd of mediocre surfers, and trust fund bros, causing chaos at Dana Point, California’s premier subpar wave. A swarm of bees descended on the longtime surfing ...

On a muggy day in June, Don Hopkins was conducting a routine bee inspection when his phone rang. Hopkins is an apiarist at the N.C. Department of Agriculture, and visiting hives around the state to ...

My mom’s hair never took a vacation. It was always there, something you could depend on. In fact, she had her hair done up ...

Scientists say chemical signals help determine whether offspring remain and work for the queen or leave to establish nests of ...

Queen pheromones in Megalopta bees tell daughters when it's worth sacrificing their fertility to help their mom ...

Female sweat bees need to make a pivotal life decision: remain in the nest to help their mother raise more offspring or leave to establish nests of their own. New research from the Smithsonian ...