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 workers’ opportunistic egg-laying behavior was discovered in 2012 by researchers led by evolutionary biologist Karolina Kuszewska of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. With no queen around ...

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 ...

The world's best-selling insecticide may impair the ability of a queen honey bee and her subjects to maintain a healthy colony, says new research led by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln entomologist.

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 ...

When I want something sweet, I pull out a jar of honey made by my bee friends at Washington State University. I talked about your question with one of the insect scientists there, Rae Olsson. They ...

New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows that a widely-used class of nicotine-based insecticides is causing queen bees to lay substantially fewer eggs than normal. This particular ...

Scientists are researching the so-called ‘zombee’ phenomenon to learn more about the decline in the numbers of the humble honey bee. The parasitic phorid fly is preying on the insect and after ...

When the results of Canada's national honey bee colony loss survey were published in July 2025, they came as no surprise. According to the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists, an ...

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The Neolarra vigilans is smaller than a grain of rice. Taken from Our Native Bees © Copyright 2018 by Paige Embry. All rights reserved. The following is an excerpt ...