Worker bees experienced withdrawal symptoms when alcohol was removed from food. The behavior of honeybees may hold the key to future studies of alcohol addiction, according to new research.

Benjamin Oldroyd receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. Vanina Vergoz receives funding from the Australian Research ...

Special glands in the heads of worker bees secrete the stuff, which gets fed to babies. A developing queen bee is fed royal jelly exclusively—not pollen and honey like her proletarian sisters.

In a honey bee colony, the queen bee rules while her daughter workers do nothing but work. So what happens when the queen dies? Are there worker riots, with the colony dissolving into a chaotic mess?

But because Cape honeybee worker bees perfectly clone themselves, each clone remains as genetically healthy as her mother. “It’s quite remarkable,” he says. One line of clones has been re ...