Farmers who rent honeybee colonies for crop pollination are paying for a service measured in the tens of millions of flower ...

A journey into Estonia’s beekeeping traditions, the genetics of its honey bees and the growing craft of queen bee rearing.

Honey bee queens reared inside cells built from ordinary worker wax develop smaller bodies and die at sharply higher rates ...

The peanut-shaped compartments where future queens grow up seem to play an important role in development. The wax has ...