Honey bee larvae lack the sophisticated olfactory capabilities of adult honey bees, a new study finds. Scientists point to ...

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

Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens or short-lived sterile workers who help rear their sisters rather than lay ...

For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing told a clean story: feed a honeybee larva royal jelly, and it ...

The Department of Agriculture has conditionally approved a new vaccine meant to protect honeybees from a bacterial disease that can affect the bee's larvae. There will be a new vaccine on the market, ...

While known for their painful stings, bees are well protected against most predators due to their defence mechanism. However, ...

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 ...