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 ...

It’s estimated that roughly 90% of the world’s plants depend on bees’ survival. Bees are the world’s most significant pollinators and are vital to our ecosystem. These tiny insects excel as a colony, ...

In the intricate world of honeybee colonies, the survival of the hive hinges on the health and productivity of the queen bee. However, if the worker bees detect any signs of weakness in their queen, ...

A worker bee (left) and a queen bee (right) slurp up artificial nectar during laboratory experiments. Zexiang Huang, Shumeng Wu, Qinglin Wu Every spring, enterprising queen bumblebees emerge from ...

Queen bees emit a pheromone that attracts worker bees — the queen's daughters — to her side. The differentiation of bee larvae into either workers or queens has baffled researchers, and now a team led ...

The bees swarmed into my daughter’s front yard on the third of July, which meant that her guests arriving the next day for the holiday had to go around to the side door to enter the house. Bees do ...