Quick Questions explains how some bees can transform flower nectar into the liquid gold that you use to sweeten your tea.

A common question is what do the bees do in this cold, icy weather? For the last several thousand years, bees have evolved to go inside their hive when temperatures drop below the mid-50s, forming a ...

Honey bees must make it back to their hives before dusk to avoid individual bees becoming lost or exposed to nighttime dangers. Forager bees sleep overnight so that they are ready to work the ...

Scientists discovered that two brain chemicals in honey bees can predict how fast they will learn, offering new insight into ...

Has your cat or dog been itching excessively? You might have fleas. Here's how to get rid of fleas on your pets and in the ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival—and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing than ...

Take a leisurely look around the animal kingdom, and you will find some indisputable instances of play. There are plenty of viral videos that show baby elephants and bears rolling around in the mud ...

Last week I introduced you to “Amy,” an urban beekeeper who, because of stories of uninformed people unfairly complaining ...

Honey bees are not native to the Western Hemisphere. They were brought over by boat around 400 to 500 years ago by settlers.

A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioral biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the flight behavior of honey bees. Using a drone, the researchers tracked honey ...