Worker bees are the first line of defense when it comes to removing contamination in honeybee colonies, but a queen has her ways, too. A honeybee queen facing chronic exposure to pesticides will take ...

John Cleese wants to play James Bond and Lady Jane Grey next in his career.

Joseph Barrios was reunited with Bumblebee the ball python nearly two weeks after a thief stole a bag of his snakes near the Oceanside Pier.

For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen.

Photos shared by Queen Bee Supply LLC, a beekeeping business in the area, showed the bees in dense clusters on nearby trees.

Millions of honeybees escaped into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer carrying about 400 hives tipped over, ...

Officials say millions of honeybees escaped into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer carrying about 400 hives ...

Scientists have long believed the key to making a young honeybee into a queen was to feed her royal jelly. Royal jelly is a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive. Worker bees perform a myriad of jobs to keep up the ...

A queen bee may be shaped by more than its famous royal diet. “The discovery is very cool and thought-provoking,” says Thomas Seeley, a biologist at Cornell University who was not involved in the work ...

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 ...