But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...

The density of fine hairs on bumblebees’ tongues determines how much nectar they can collect — and workers put queen bees to shame.

As heat waves intensify and seasons slip out of their old patterns, the survival of honey bees is becoming a test case for ...

Wild queen bumblebees get killed by worker bees inside commercial hives after they are lured in by vibrant colors and the promise of usurping the resident queen. When you purchase through links on our ...

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 ...

The most anticipated sign of spring for this gardener is not the arrival of the first seed catalogs, not the first green tips of a daffodil and not even the first sighting of a red-winged blackbird.