A bumblebee’s brain is smaller than a sesame seed. But it can still accomplish quite a bit. “You don’t need a big brain to learn well,” said Felicity Muth, an assistant professor in the Department of ...

If you see a bumblebee buzzing around our region’s early-blooming flowers, it’s a queen. Roused by warming temperatures, she ...

Upcoming research funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will investigate the secrets of longevity in honeybee queens. Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less ...

A worker bee (left) and a queen bee (right) slurp up artificial nectar during laboratory experiments. Zexiang Huang, Shumeng Wu, Qinglin Wu Every spring, enterprising queen bumblebees emerge from ...

A queen bee's cage is covered with nurse bees during the production of honey in Pasadena, Calif, on May 31, 2023.Frederic J. Brown—AFP/Getty Images American foulbrood disease can reduce thousands of ...