When people think of honey bees, they often think of classic wooden hives, in which beekeepers are having to breed more and more bees just to keep managed populations stable. These man-made boxes, ...

Thinking about the natural cycle through insects that eat honeybee hives—When you keep bees, you encounter a variety of ...

Honey bees are social insects that live in highly organized colonies consisting of a queen, workers, and drones. Best known ...

Researchers are using big data and smart technologies to improve conditions for bees and guide beekeepers. With an electronic "ping," Professor Dirk de Graaf gets an alert on his smartphone. It's a ...

Cardamom flowers open for roughly six hours. In that window, the pollen has to move. The bee that does it most reliably in ...

Symmetry is everywhere, and for many different reasons. Humans find symmetrical faces more attractive, and symmetrical buildings, like the Taj Mahal, aesthetically pleasing. Most animals also have ...

The guard bees represent only about 1-2% of the 10,000 total workers in a nest, a ratio decided by the bees that tend brood ...