What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the ...

Honeybee colonies work in an organised way even though no bee tells the others what to do. Young bees look after the queen ...

Tasks must be reliably divided between the members of the community for it to function properly. While humans consciously organise and distribute tasks, there is no central planning in a bee colony.

Bees have a reputation for being tireless workers, but it turns out that reputation only really applies to some of them.

Honeybee queens are the lifeline of their colonies, so scientists were stunned to discover they are deliberately poisoning ...

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 ...

Honey bee colonies worldwide suffered massive losses last year, but University of Vermont researchers and international partners developed a new testing method that may lead to more disease-resistant ...