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For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen. New research reveals the process is far more remarkable: young worker bees ...

A child’s simple curiosity about why some bees live in different-looking cells has helped crack open a layer of honey bee biology that scientists had overlooked for decades. Researchers at the ...

Scientists have long thought that worker bees help shield queens from contamination by filtering harmful substances out of the food they provide. The new findings indicate that this protection may ...

Bumblebees are able to learn to associate new odors with their colony's queen, instead of being preprogrammed to recognize the queen's pheromones from birth, according to a new study led by ...

Two Price beekeepers grew 16 hives into 200 by raising their own queens. Now Desert Castle Bees helps other beekeepers and ...

This article predates Brown Brothers Media’s ownership of Science Blog and has not been reviewed under our current editorial process. It is preserved as part of the publication’s archive. The queen is ...

Witness the life cycle of bees with the book “Diary of a Honey Bee” A bee on ‘capped’ honeycombs. The more honey there is in the nest, the more aggressively the bees will defend it. Credit: Brian ...