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 ...

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

An Anchorage backyard beekeeper with tens of thousands of bees in his outdoor hives wanted a closer look at what was happening inside the colony — so he brought one indoors.

OR, THE LITTLE OLD SHOE. by Louisa May Alcott HOW IT WAS LOST. Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly b ...

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

Chemical signals help determine whether daughters remain and work for the queen or leave to establish nests of their own ...

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

For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen. New research reveals the process is far more remarkable: young worker bees ...

Against the backdrop of the worst recorded US honeybee colony loss in modern history — more than half of all managed colonies destroyed in a single year — a new peer-reviewed study has uncovered a ...

Without honeybee queens, there would not be a colony. They are the only bees that lay thousands of eggs daily to support the colony’s growth. So why would honeybee queens pass pesticides into their ...