When a honeybee colony must find a new home, up to 10,000 bees make one of the most important decisions of their ...

From democratic honeybees to self-aware flies, there's plenty we can learn from creepy crawlies about how to make better decisions.

What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the universities in Cologne and Frankfurt/Main have investigated the role ...

I was called to check out some bees in a shed wall and quickly realized this colony was far bigger than anyone expected. In this video I carefully peel back the siding, expose layer after layer of ...

Biologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute investigated a flexible social bee species, which helps shed light on the evolution of more complex organizational structures among other inse ...

Inter-organismal conflict is a powerful driver of evolution by natural selection through exploration of competitive fitness ...

Researchers found that specific brain circuits help decide which jobs bees perform as they age. When those circuits were switched off, older worker bees began caring for the queen again instead of ...

What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the universities in Cologne and Frankfurt/Main have investigated the role ...

Honeybees have long depended entirely on flower pollen for a group of essential fats called sterols, nutrients they cannot produce inside their own bodies and cannot get from any other natural food ...

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 ...