But many bee species do just fine without queens or big colonies. Small hive beetles are the only species known to trick worker bees into feeding them essential food for the bee colony’s own ...

and a chemical from a nursing bee that is fed to a queen bee her entire life, while worker bees receive the jelly only until they reach maturation. This jelly is highly sought after by humans for ...

Former GCs and other senior level lawyers are now highly desirable for almost any kind of contract work – both at the high ...

A honeybee colony typically has three types of bee: drone, worker, and queen. The queens lay up to 2000 eggs per day, for an average lifespan of 2 to 3 years -- good thing for the colony ...

This cozy cluster keeps the hive warm and protects the all-important queen bee. Come spring, older worker bees resume their foraging flights. Sadly, this is when they naturally start to die off.

Instead, bees are inoculated through a sugar paste that researchers spike with heat-killed P. larvae. Worker bees eat the candy and incorporate it into their royal jelly, which they feed to the queen.

In his groundbreaking book, Seeley "weaves illuminating personal stories with the latest science, explaining such mysteries as how worker bees function as scouts to choose a home site for their ...

WORKER honey-bees produce alarm pheromones in their sting apparatus and in their mandibular glands 1. One of the components of the sting pheromone 2 has been identified as isoamyl acetate which ...

A lab mistake revealed that hibernating bumblebees can survive fully submerged underwater for at least seven days. This ability suggests the embattled insects are more resilient than previously ...

It’s that time of year again when we begin getting calls about sightings of honey bee swarms. Coming across a swarm can be very scary, but there’s no need to panic! Honey bees have no interest ...