Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

These results demonstrate that honeybee hive-building does not follow a fixed blueprint, but instead is a flexible process wherein a colony can apply a variety of strategies to adapt to different ...

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 ...

"Generally, you want bees who are adapted to your local climate, and our bees were adapted for Southern California," Rob says. But those that did survive clearly "had some advantage" genetically that ...

From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...

Caltrans workers discovered a hive of roughly 40,000 bees during construction on a Highway 154 bridge in Santa Barbara. Caltrans District 5 It’s no surprise to hear a lot of noise during construction, ...