Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining ...

"We just weren't expecting that." ...

A newly published book, “Honey Bee Biology,” authored by UC Davis honeybee scientist Brian Johnson, a leading expert on the behavior, genomics and evolution of honeybees, will be released June 6 by ...

As married research professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dustin Gilbert and Anne Murray often discuss their ...

Bees have much better vision than was previously known, offering new insights into the lives of honey bees, and new opportunities for translating this knowledge into fields such as robot vision, ...

Pollination must become part of India’s natural farming transition. It is particularly beneficial to coffee, spices and ...

Bees are, in many ways, the darlings of the insect world. Not only do they play a crucial role in thriving ecosystems, but they’re also harbingers of the worsening consequences of climate change. To ...

In the photos (from left): Pollination ecologist Neal Williams checks the nesting site of blue orchard bees; male leafcutter bee peers over a rock purslane blossom; and a female sunflower bee forages ...

Bumble bees go "off color" and can't remember which flowers have the most nectar when they are feeling under the weather. The behavior of the bumbling bees reveals that, like humans who are ill, bees ...