On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...

Honeybees are one of the hardest-working creatures on this planet. But there is much more to them than what meets the eye. They are also maestros when it comes to construction and design. They can ...

There’s more than one way to build a honeybee hive, depending on the needs of the bees, according to a study published August 26 th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Golnar Gharooni-Fard of ...

Research reveals how millions of years of evolution has engineered honey bees to make fast decisions and reduce risk. Honey bees have to balance effort, risk and reward, making rapid and accurate ...

Pretty much everyone knows that honey comes from bees, but the nuts and bolts of the process may be more mysterious. In fact, ...

From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...