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 ...

A honey bee colony is a superorganism; working together as a unified entity with each bee working individually but ...

New research reveals how viral infections in queen bees disturb colony stability and pinpoints a specific pheromone that may help preserve unity and productivity within hives. It may sound like the ...

Worker bees stage coordinated revolts when viral infections weaken their queen and lower her pheromone output. This disruption drives many of the queen failures that beekeepers struggle with today.

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 32, No. 3 (1993), pp. 191-198 (8 pages) The study investigates whether worker policing via the selective removal of worker-laid male eggs occurs in normal ...

There is a growing concern about a massive honey bee die-off in the United States, and the sting might not spare Southwest Florida. The Beekeepers Association of Southwest Florida is actively working ...

When the results of Canada's national honey bee colony loss survey were published in July 2025, they came as no surprise.