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 ...

Researchers uncover how the fruitless gene steers brain development and social feeding behavior in male honeybees.

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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, ...

A worker died after being stung by bees at Vi at Silverstone in Scottsdale, Arizona, police said. Screengrab from KPNX A member of a work crew was killed in a bee attack while on the roof of a ...

New evidence reveals that behavior, including hive mentality or groupthink, may be predetermined by genetics. Generally, we consider behavior to be learned. By interacting with the world, different ...

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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 ...

Researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) are collaborating with colleagues from Frankfurt/Main, Oxford and Würzburg to investigate how the complex, cooperative behaviour of honey bees ...

There are more of us that will always be worker bees than there will be boss types. I have been lucky enough to be both. So, from life I have the perspective of both sides of the fence. But! Yes, a ...