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 ...

As threats like mites become more resistant to pesticides, California honey bees need more human intervention to save their hives.

A new study from the University of California, Riverside shows that even bumble bee queens, the sole founders of their colonies, take regular breaks from reproduction—likely to avoid burning out ...

"Beekeepers are losing bees at a rate that they say is unsustainable," Samantha Alger, director of the Vermont Bee Lab at UVM, said in a news release. "In the 80s, beekeepers lost colonies 10-12% ...

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 ...