Following a queen rather than a hive changes how a review interprets honey bee reproduction, colony lifetimes and parental ...

The annual honey bee husbandry survey by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute finds about one-in-four colonies were lost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State study finds worker bees help turn larvae into future queens by passing juvenile hormone in food. (CREDIT: Dmitry ...

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 ...

A new version of the BEEHAVE honey bee model replaces the fixed egg-laying curve with an emergent feedback loop linking ...

Inspection in the Deepening AutumnOn October 18, I conducted an inspection of the honeybees.In Mitsuke City, Niigata ...

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...

IntroductionOctober is drawing to a close, and we will welcome November in just a few days.In Niigata Prefecture, the morning ...

It sounds like the plot of a medieval historical drama: A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such high-stakes coups ...

Viewing honey bee colonies as superorganisms could reshape modern beekeeping, raising important questions about parasite ...

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or become a large future queen built to survive winter and start a colony of her ...