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 ...

Honeybee queens are the lifeline of their colonies, so scientists were stunned to discover they are deliberately poisoning ...

Worker bees are the first line of defense when it comes to removing contamination in honeybee colonies, but a queen has her ...

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

Pesticide exposure may quietly weaken honeybee colonies as queens shift harmful chemicals into their developing eggs.

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

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BEIJING — Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen — with the responsibility of serving as the colony's only baby maker — ...

When considering what shapes animal development, factors such as genetics come to mind. For a queen bee, however, her special wax home also has a role. Surprisingly, although queen cells are ...

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 ...

Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen - with ...