For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen.

Beekeepers in Madrid, Spain carefully removed sections of a wall to remove a bee colony growing inside on May 31. The bees and their hive were later relocated. A reflecting pool that has long enticed ...

Researchers tracked honey bees in the wild using a drone-based system and found that each bee follows its own highly ...

When considering what shapes animal development, factors such as genetics come to mind. For a queen bee, however, her special wax home also has a role. Surprisingly, although queen cells are ...

It all began in the spring of 2022, when Rachel Fordyce, then a laboratory technician in Cornell University's entomology department, noticed an anomalous presence of insects during her usual walk to ...

Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial intelligence, according to a researcher at Missouri S&T. "With the way AI ...

A quiet cemetery in Ithaca, New York, was hiding a huge working world just under the grass. Scientists estimate that about 5.56 million regular mining bees emerged from East Lawn Cemetery in spring ...

Our findings redefine the queen cell not as a passive container, but as an engineered bioactive microenvironment that acts as a gatekeeper for caste determination 1. We show that worker cell wax, even ...

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Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...