Honeybee queens are the lifeline of their colonies, so scientists were stunned to discover they are deliberately poisoning their own eggs. The reason why reveals a desperate survival strategy with ...

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

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 ...

Savannah Spoor shares how Lyme disease led her to try bee venom therapy after years of worsening symptoms and many ...

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

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 ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla marked an exciting royal first at their Sandringham residence in Norfolk on Wednesday, before ...

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 ...

Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, ...

She had raised bees in South Carolina for more than a decade, and her insects had almost always been eager to fly out and collect pollen. But one day last summer, she found her bees huddled at the ...

Brentford are set to sign former England striker Callum Wilson on an initial 12-month contract. The 34-year-old forward, who left West Ham at the end of last season, is in advanced talks with the west ...