American beekeepers watched 55.6% of their managed honey bee colonies die between April 2024 and April 2025, setting a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Honey bee colonies across the United States are facing record-breaking losses in 2025, with scientists warning the impact could be ...

A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

"Within a week, we lost 15 of those 20 colonies all to poisoning." ...

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

Collective behaviors are present across many different animal groups: schools of fish swimming in a swirling pattern together, large flocks of birds migrating through the night, groups of bees ...

The study found that when bees could choose between plain sugar solution and sugar solution containing viruses, they preferred the virus-contaminated food.

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

In honey bees, the role a bee plays in the colony changes as they age. Younger bees perform duties inside the hive, such as nursing and wax building, while older bees transition to roles outside of ...