In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this ...

Learn how environmental constraints and a lack of soil led ancient bees to reuse fossil cavities in a Caribbean cave, leaving ...

Fossils from a Caribbean cave reveal bees once nested inside animal bones, offering rare insight into ancient insect behavior ...

Long-range tracking technology will help researchers understand bee behavior. Kew Gardens in London is mapping bee behavior using tiny trackers mounted to their bodies. Kew Gardens — -- Here's ...

Argentine ants compete with bumble bees for prized nectar sources. But the bees are fighting back. Find out how.

CINCINNATI (Scott Dimmich) -- People may consider bees to be nothing more than pests, but consider this: honey bee pollination is responsible about one in every three bites of food in our diets. In ...

In late summer last year my doctor prescribed a monthlong course of antibiotics for an infection. Medicines like antibiotics are great at wiping out bacterial infections. The problems is that these ...

Now that scientists have determined the complete genetic sequence of the honeybee, researchers are probing some mysteries of the bee's existence, such as how a bee's genes control its behavior. Some ...

The findings will be used to help researchers determine how traits, characteristics and color impact behavior. Recently discovered genetic knowledge of two nuisance western honey bee subspecies will ...

The insect foraging (for) gene encodes a cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) that affects foraging behavior. In Drosophila two different for alleles have been found, and the two alleles affect ...