A backyard beekeeper with tens of thousands of bees in his outdoor hives wanted a closer look at what was happening inside ...

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 ...

Biologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute investigated a flexible social bee species, which helps shed light ...