While social honeybees have survived the winter by eating stored honey and huddling together to keep warm, some of their ...

Most remarkably, we now know that bees are sentient, may exhibit self-awareness, and possibly have a basic form of consciousness. Bees can feel pain and likely suffer. Some bees plan for the future by ...

Only female carpenter bees have a stinger, though they rarely sting unless grabbed or squeezed. Unlike social bees, carpenter bees do not live in colonies. Instead, they excavate tunnels in wood ...

what is it that queens provide for the bee species that do have them? We are behavioral ecologists who study social insects, ...

Honeybees are renowned for their intricate waggle dance, a specialized form of communication that directs nestmates to ...

One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on pollination are five times more valuable than those that do not. Social bees, such as honeybees ...

This period is especially critical for social bee colonies, which are founded by a single queen after diapause and play a vital role in large-scale pollination.” They continue: “Bumblebees are annual ...