A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

When a honeybee colony must find a new home, up to 10,000 bees make one of the most important decisions of their ...

Multiple environmental pressures are harming bees whose pollination supports crops and flowering plants worldwide.

Researchers were surprised to find how widespread this magnetic property was, not only across families of bees but also ...

A Deerfield Beach family’s dog died after a bee attack, and they are warning other South Florida homeowners to pay attention ...

An estimated two million honey bees escaped over the weekend after a semitrailer carrying beehives turned over in a rural Texas neighborhood, according to officials and multiple reports. The incident ...

Millions of honeybees escaped into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer carrying about 400 hives tipped over, officials said. Emergency officials in Orange County, Texas, shut down roads in ...

Researchers tracked honey bees in the wild using a drone-based system and found that each bee follows its own highly consistent flight path. Some repeated their routes so precisely that they flew only ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

A queen bee may be shaped by more than its famous royal diet. “The discovery is very cool and thought-provoking,” says Thomas Seeley, a biologist at Cornell University who was not involved in the work ...

America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most. The closure comes at a critical moment for bees. In winter 2025, many beekeepers lost over half their ...