Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Penn State study finds worker bees help turn larvae into future queens by passing juvenile hormone in food. (CREDIT: Dmitry ...

What determines which tasks bees perform in their colony? Biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the ...

What is the difference between male and female bees? Male bees are called drones. Female bees are called workers, and they ...

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Honeybee colonies work in an organised way even though no bee tells the others what to do. Young bees look after the queen ...

In the intricate world of honeybee colonies, the survival of the hive hinges on the health and productivity of the queen bee. However, if the worker bees detect any signs of weakness in their queen, ...

Imagine two identical twins. One lives a modest life for about six weeks, while the other lives a luxurious life with ...

Labor Day honors workers. And with good reason, indeed for more reasons that many people consider: Ever more is expected of the worker bee. Often with the Damoclean sword above their heads, they’re ...

A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or become a large future queen built to survive winter and start a colony of her ...