For a long time, the standard account of queen-making in honeybees centered on one ingredient: royal jelly. A recent study ...

Researchers at Adelaide University have developed a new type of robotic system inspired by bees and ants that could make ...

Local beekeepers rushed to the rescue after a truck carrying roughly 20 million bees overturned on a wet country road in ...

Two million bees belonging to 408 hives got loose in Orange County, Texas on June 21 after a semitrailer accidentally drove ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive. Worker bees perform a myriad of jobs to keep up the ...

A queen bee may be shaped by more than its famous royal diet. “The discovery is very cool and thought-provoking,” says Thomas Seeley, a biologist at Cornell University who was not involved in the work ...

When considering what shapes animal development, factors such as genetics come to mind. For a queen bee, however, her special wax home also has a role. Surprisingly, although queen cells are ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — 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 ...

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WASHINGTON (TNND) — A swarm of bees temporarily took over part of the White House grounds on Friday after thousands of the insects gathered on the North Lawn. Photos and videos from the scene showed a ...