“We showed that these three groups of social bees . . . have a shared core microbiome that has diverged and diversified over time,” coauthor Waldan Kwong, who is now a postdoc at the University of ...

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

The majority of these are solitary bees, but some, like the better-known bumblebees and honeybee, are social insects and live in colonies. Solitary bees, such as the red mason bee, will mate and ...

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 ...

These bees' social structures have two more things in common besides the egg-laying queen: the female workers who care for the colony, and the males, sometimes called "drones." Notice the males ...

Many people know that honeybees are suffering. Land use, chemical use and climate change weaken the health of individuals and populations of bees, making them more susceptible to infestations of mites ...