“Human beings and honey bees are almost the same word.” According to Prof. Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor in Biology Emeritus, in addition to these phonetic similarities, honey bees also ...

EPFL researchers are developing robotic beehive frames that help locate honey stores inside of beehives over time, without relying on cameras. The aim is to develop new observation tools to study ...

The personal backstory to 20 of the most exciting research projects that the author has been part of during his 50 years of ...

“Little guy looks like me after Thanksgiving dinner,” one Redditor joked in response to a video showing a bee behaving unexpectedly after visiting a sunflower. Saddled with pollen, the bee falls off ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz have discovered that honey bees from the same colony have different preferences in terms of defensive ...

Bees are fascinating intelligent and sentient insects whose cognitive and emotional lives are currently receiving the attention they have long deserved from serious card-carrying scientists. 1 I ...

A new study from Monash University in Melbourne analyzed native bees and the non-native European honeybee. The research team wanted to better understand how climate change and habitat loss have ...

Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the ...