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

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 ...

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

We thank Nathan Beach and Rachel Manweiler for beekeeping assistance, Hongfei Xu and Thomas J. Colgan for useful discussions regarding previously published bumble bee data, and members of the Robinson ...

A surprisingly large number and diversity of bee species – 74 out of 96 tested – have magnetic properties, according to research my colleagues and I recently published in the journal Science Advances.

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Queen bees are the heartbeat of honeybee colonies. Without them consistently producing eggs, the colony would not survive. This is why the eggs and larvae are so fiercely protected from would-be ...

This video investigates the biological process that transforms an ordinary larva into a queen bee. It explains how specialized feeding with royal jelly alters development, triggering profound physical ...

Royal jelly is only part of what makes a queen honeybee. Scientists found that worker bees build specialized “royal cribs” and work together to create the ideal environment for raising the colony’s ...

A honeybee hive can look like one of the most orderly places in nature. Thousands of workers move in tight coordination, feeding each other, tending the young, and guarding a single queen at the ...