Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 24—You don't have to keep bees to help the embattled pollinators. Just keeping count might be a good start. Entomologists ...

What can a honey bee tell us about human learning? According to researchers at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University, more than you might think. Their findings, published in Science Advances on ...

Does a big brain make you smarter? A study published in PNAS provides a nuanced answer in bees. By testing their ability to ...

The world of bees extends far beyond their well-known role as nature’s most industrious pollinators. These small but mighty insects possess a sophisticated level of collective intelligence, with ...

Scientists with Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and Arizona State University recorded, for the first time in honey bees, the dynamics of neurotransmitters as the bees ...

Social learning plays an important role in a honey bee’s ability to “waggle dance,” report researchers, who observed that honey bees not exposed to the dances of older, more experienced nestmates ...

So, what are the new beekeepers learning about their bees? They are learning about festooning, which is when the bees are making wax and filling the hive with the essential wax needed for the hive.

There are hobby beekeepers, and there are commercial beekeepers. And then there are beekeepers that take the queen bee on vacation with them. Allan Hazel, who owns A.P.’s Back Beach Bees on Sullivan’s ...