For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen.

Beekeepers in Madrid, Spain carefully removed sections of a wall to remove a bee colony growing inside on May 31. The bees and their hive were later relocated. Coffee found to have startling effect on ...

Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial ...

When considering what shapes animal development, factors such as genetics come to mind. For a queen bee, however, her special wax home also has a role. Surprisingly, although queen cells are ...

It all began in the spring of 2022, when Rachel Fordyce, then a laboratory technician in Cornell University's entomology department, noticed an anomalous presence of insects during her usual walk to ...

A new study demonstrates that honeybees can evaluate the reliability of their own communication, actively adjusting the vigor of their "waggle dance" based on the truthfulness of the information they ...

A quiet cemetery in Ithaca, New York, was hiding a huge working world just under the grass. Scientists estimate that about 5.56 million regular mining bees emerged from East Lawn Cemetery in spring ...

In spring 2022, an Ithaca, New York, resident named Rachel Fordyce noticed something strange in East Lawn Cemetery. Patches of bare soil between the headstones were alive with movement: thousands of ...

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