When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

A honey bee colony is a superorganism; working together as a unified entity with each bee working individually but ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 32, No. 3 (1993), pp. 191-198 (8 pages) The study investigates whether worker policing via the selective removal of worker-laid male eggs occurs in normal ...

New research reveals how viral infections in queen bees disturb colony stability and pinpoints a specific pheromone that may help preserve unity and productivity within hives. It may sound like the ...

Worker-reproduction is rare in queenright honey-bee colonies. When workers do lay eggs, their eggs are normally eaten by other workers presumably because they lack the queen's egg-marking signal.

When the results of the Canada’s national honey bee colony loss survey were published in July 2025, they came as no surprise. According to the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists, an ...