Researchers in Germany studying honeybees found that DNA can predetermine certain behaviors. Their findings may shed light on ...

The queen bee isn’t a queen in the sense that she makes rules – she’s a queen in the sense that she lays all the eggs, which makes her the doted-upon mother of all of the bees in the hive.

but some are as large as the biggest honey bee hives. These bees’ social structures have two more things in common besides ...

LEFT: A queen bee and workers on brood comb. RIGHT: The queen bee laying an egg, surrounded by a retinue of workers. Queen bee laying an egg, surrounded by a retinue of workers. Bees are tucked ...

Were a bee to enter a cinema ... her workers will move a recently laid egg into a queen cell to produce her replacement. While workers select which fertilized eggs to brood in queen or worker ...

So, the queen bee is the largest bee in the colony. She has one job, and that's to lay eggs for the colony. And if you are lucky enough to find the queen bee during a removal, that makes your job ...

There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species have been recorded in Wales. The majority of these are solitary bees, but some, like the better-known bumblebees and honeybee, are ...