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 ...

Honey bee colonies are often portrayed as models of stability, yet inside the hive, power can change hands with ruthless efficiency. When workers decide their monarch is no longer fit to lead, they ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Previously we reported that there are subfamily differences in drone production in queenless honey bee colonies, but these biases are not always explained by subfamily differences in oviposition ...

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.