National Geographic has documentary fans – and I'm among them – buzzing with curiosity. Because "Secrets of the Bees," one of the finest nature documentaries I've ever seen, now is available on ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Every colony of bees is overseen by a queen who produces all the colony's eggs, but what makes a queen bee a queen? For decades, biologists believed that queen bee development was a result of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive. Worker bees perform a myriad of jobs to keep up the ...