More information: Sean T. Bresnahan et al, Intragenomic conflict associated with extreme phenotypic plasticity in queen-worker caste determination in honey bees (Apis mellifera), Genome Biology (2025) ...

Kevin O'Leary is calling on U.S. policymakers to reverse export restrictions on artificial intelligence chips.

Let's explore the major differences between queen and worker bees and why this hierarchical system is crucial to hive ...

The scale of these losses is completely unsustainable,” said Zac Browning, a fourth-generation commercial beekeeper and board chairman of Project Apis m, in the release. “Honey bees are the ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers.

Penn State scientists uncover how parent genes compete to decide if a honey bee larva becomes a queen or a worker.

The mites we now find plaguing western honey bees are native to Asia, where they co-evolved alongside the Asian honey bees (Apis cerana). Thanks to a long period of coevolution, Asian honey bees have ...

Resistance to synthetic antibiotics poses a critical global health challenge. Various European honeybee and other natural products have been proposed as novel therapeutic agents to address this ...

This year, commercial beekeepers in the U.S. lost about 60% of their bees – more than double average losses. What do those losses mean for beekeepers, and what do we know about the cause?

Swarming often happens when a honey bee colony outgrows its home, becomes too congested or too populated for pheromones to properly spread around the colony and tell worker bees what to do ...

An Asian giant honeybee (Apis dorsata) worker bee, one of four native honey bee species in Cambodia, where global threats like climate change are compounded by local factors like the consumption ...

Part one of a two-part feature on honeybees explores existential threats they face, from climate change to mites and bears.