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

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

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 ...

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 ...

An estimated two million honey bees escaped over the weekend after a semitrailer carrying beehives turned over in a rural Texas neighborhood, according to officials and multiple reports. The incident ...

Millions of honeybees escaped into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer carrying about 400 hives tipped over, officials said. Emergency officials in Orange County, Texas, shut down roads in ...

Scientists have long believed the key to making a young honeybee into a queen was to feed her royal jelly. Royal jelly is a highly nutritious milky secretion that all honeybee larvae are fed for at ...

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Study provides insight into how a honeybee queen arises Chambers are built for future queen's larval development Wax for these cells differs physically and chemically Queens also are fed nutrient-rich ...

BEIJING — Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen — with the responsibility of serving as the colony's only baby maker — ...

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 ...

A queen bee may be shaped by more than its famous royal diet. “The discovery is very cool and thought-provoking,” says Thomas Seeley, a biologist at Cornell University who was not involved in the work ...