Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...

This is not the plot of a new Game of Thrones spinoff, but a common and violent reality in honey bee colonies. As with any ...

A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such ...

The research team found that common viruses can damage a queen’s ovaries, reducing both her egg-laying rate and the ...

The American Bumble Bee, Bombus pensylvanicus, is one of the most common bumble bee species found on the Front Range and is one of the 24 species found in Colorado 1. This species is found only in the ...

Honey bee colonies have a surprising way of ensuring survival. When a queen bee weakens due to virus infection, her pheromone signals decline. Worker bees sense this weakness and instinctively raise a ...

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 ...

New research shows that viruses weaken honey bee queens, lowering pheromone signals and energy, causing workers to replace them.

A queen bee is seen in the center of a hive at Taber's Honey Bee Genetics near Vacaville, Calif., Wednesday, April 28, 2004. Taber's is one of about 20 commercial breeders in California who produce ...

The shy queen bee is hiding among the worker bees in this hive. She loves honey and your attention too. Can you spot her within 10 seconds? This optical illusion won't be easy to solve, so we'll need ...

The semen of male honey bees contains a poison that makes queens temporarily lose their sight after sex, in what scientists described as a "sexual arms race." In most social insects—the category ...