The Queen Bee will be published by Hachette Books on Nov. 2 Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016. Lil' Kim — the "Original Queen Bee" — ...

Female honeybees follow a simple code: only the queen lays eggs. If a female worker breaks the code, the other females quickly devour her rogue eggs. The queen even releases chemical signals that ...

Upcoming research funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will investigate the secrets of longevity in honeybee queens. Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less ...

This weekend, thousands of women will take to the streets of Cincinnati for the half marathon and 4-miler. This weekend, thousands of women will take to the streets of Cincinnati for the half marathon ...

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 ...

Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you've determined that you definitely need to requeen, read on. Buy a New Queen The first step in requeening your ...

There’s more than one way to save honeybees. Raina Jain has come up with two so far — and she’s still in college. While in high school, the Connecticut native became aware of how critters called ...