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

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 ...

Every colony of bees is overseen by a queen who produces all the colony's eggs, but what makes a queen bee a queen? For decades, biologists believed that queen bee development was a result of the ...

For a long time, the standard account of queen-making in honeybees centered on one ingredient: royal jelly. A recent study suggests that answer was incomplete. The path to becoming queen also appears ...

When I want something sweet, I pull out a jar of honey made by my bee friends at Washington State University. I talked about your question with one of the insect scientists there, Rae Olsson. They ...

Upcoming research funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will investigate the secrets of longevity in honeybee queens. Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less ...

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