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

In chess, the queen is the most valuable piece for a player. She’s capable of making any move, which also makes her the most ...

Of all the unique flying, buzzing specimens out there, bumblebees are one of the most mesmerizing…even when they’re engaging ...

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

Researchers discovered that genetic conflict between paternal and maternal genes determines whether honey bee larvae become queens or workers. The study reveals how histone modifications control gene ...

“We found that, in honey bees, parent-of-origin expression is regulated by histone modifications,” Bresnahan said. He explained that the chemical tags modifying the histone proteins appears to mediate ...

For the fourth year, King of Prussia District — an organization established in 2010 by Upper Merion Township that works to ...

The holes in the ground indicating the presence of a beehive are tiny, often less than a ½ inch across. “They don’t live like honeybees. Honeybees have a queen, and they have worker bees, and ...

Roughly 300,000 robot hives are in use across the U.S., scattered across fields of almond, canola, pistachios and other crops ...

Queen bees emit a pheromone that attracts worker bees — the queen's daughters — to her side. The differentiation of bee larvae into either workers or queens has baffled researchers, and now a ...

If you mentioned the “Bee Apocalypse” 50 years ago, everyone instantly knew what you meant. After escaping from an experimental facility in Brazil, by the mid-1970s aggressive Africanized honey bees ...