A team of British and Australian researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in honeybee genetics, findings that may help unravel the mystery behind their mass deathsin recent years, according to ...

Queen bees emit a pheromone that attracts worker bees — the queen's daughters — to her side. The differentiation of bee larvae into either workers or queens has baffled researchers, and now a team led ...

Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) together with colleagues from Bochum and Paris discovered while studying ...

Since California beekeeper Valeri Strachan-Severson started breeding honeybees, she has seen a marked difference in the health of her hives. Her bees are stronger, more hygienic and rarely experience ...

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are ...

After years of research and international collaboration, Provost Robert E. Page Jr. and his colleagues have solved a crucial genetics mystery: sex determination in bees. Although the issue seems small ...