A newly published book, “Honey Bee Biology,” authored by UC Davis honeybee scientist Brian Johnson, a leading expert on the behavior, genomics and evolution of honeybees, will be released June 6 by ...

How do you move 100,000 honeybees—a living laboratory for research on the gut microbiome—half way across the country? Credit: Marsha Miller As bees sharply decline around the world, two researchers ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...

Bees have much better vision than was previously known, offering new insights into the lives of honey bees, and new opportunities for translating this knowledge into fields such as robot vision, ...

Thousands of honey bees are hard at work on a warm, summer day. It's one of 50 healthy honey bee colonies at Carol Fassbinder-Orth's farm outside Glenwood, Iowa.She's been around bees her entire life, ...

"Bee colonies are really interesting little microcosms of biology. There are lots of individuals bees, but they are all genetically related and they are living in a close confined space," said Graham ...

Bees are, in many ways, the darlings of the insect world. Not only do they play a crucial role in thriving ecosystems, but they’re also harbingers of the worsening consequences of climate change. To ...

In a honeybee hive, the queen bee has a vital role. She is responsible for the production of all of the eggs in the hive, laying about 1,500 identical eggs a day. The worker bees take care of each egg ...

Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers at the University of Bristol. The findings, published today in Current Biology, show that social bees ...

Scientific name of bee: The buzzing of bees is an integral part of our ecosystem, but the world of these crucial insects is Bees are an important part of our ecosystem, but their world is much more ...

The breeding biology of Rainbow Bee-eaters (Merops ornatus) was studied between 1997 and 2001 in southeast Queensland, Australia. Rainbow Bee-eaters are unusual in that they combine migration and ...