In chess, the queen is the most valuable piece for a player. She’s capable of making any move, which also makes her the most ...

Bumblebee queens don t work nonstop. UC Riverside scientists discovered that queens take strategic reproductive breaks early ...

Researchers at Arizona State University, University of Maryland and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France have found that adult bees use ... linked to young brood may have ...

Loss of habitat is chiefly to blame, especially the loss of plants that provide pollen and nectar for bees to feed themselves and their brood (their eggs, larvae and pupae). Falling numbers of ...

New research shows bumble bee queens pause egg-laying early in colony formation to manage energy and time reproduction.

More information: Introduced honey bees have the potential to reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees in terms of a male bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction, Frontiers in ...