Meyer Bees is providing VSH Italian Queen Bees to support beekeepers seeking queen bees recognized for productivity, colony development, and desirable behavioral characteristics. The availability of ...

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Be Queen Bee An action-strategy game where you command a bee swarm with pheromones. Split your swarm into squads and upgrade your bees to win escalating ...

A Tulsa beekeeper explains how this summer's extreme heat is drying up bees' food supply, why that matters for pollination ...

As new research shows that UK bumblebees are in sharp decline as a result of summer heatwaves, Helen Coffey says there are a ...

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

More than half of all managed honey bee colonies in the United States died between April 2024 and April 2025, a 55.6 percent loss rate that represents the worst single-year die-off since researchers ...

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 ...

Worker bees are the first line of defense when it comes to removing contamination in honeybee colonies, but a queen has her ways, too. A honeybee queen facing chronic exposure to pesticides will take ...

A honeybee crawls into a hexagonal cell of a honeycomb in a hive. A worker bee on honeycomb. The wax used to make queen cells is chemically and architecturally distinct from the wax of worker cells.

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 ...