A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the ...

A large bee colony was discovered inside a life-size statue of Jesus in Rohrbach, Germany, recently. Video from Imkerei mit ...

Tasks must be reliably divided between the members of the community for it to function properly. While humans consciously organise and distribute tasks, there is no central planning in a bee colony.

A new study by entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s. As the first study to show an ...

An invasive Asian honeybee colony in northern Australia has defied expectations, displaying emergent genetic variation in a short period of time. While bad news for biosecurity agencies, it could be a ...

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