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

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 ...

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.

The danger arises when someone has a venom allergy, or when a nest is disturbed and a victim is stung hundreds of times. In ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For centuries, honey bees introduced from Europe quietly became part of life across the Americas, pollinating crops and ...

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 ...