“Little guy looks like me after Thanksgiving dinner,” one Redditor joked in response to a video showing a bee behaving unexpectedly after visiting a sunflower. Saddled with pollen, the bee falls off ...

“Human beings and honey bees are almost the same word.” According to Prof. Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor in Biology Emeritus, in addition to these phonetic similarities, honey bees also ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz have discovered that honey bees from the same colony have different preferences in terms of defensive ...

Keep household trash cans covered and far away from living spaces. Wash them regularly to remove sugary or syrupy residues ...

EPFL researchers are developing robotic beehive frames that help locate honey stores inside of beehives over time, without relying on cameras. The aim is to develop new observation tools to study ...

From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit from working together to survive in a dog-eat-dog ...

These burly, buzzing insects cause "significant structural damage over time," pest control experts say.

Bee behavior 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 ...

For the first time, bees were recorded using bones to nest and lay eggs in a Caribbean cave. - Courtesy of Lazaro Viñola López Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives ...

The accusations you may have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed by evidence. Entomologists explain that there are ...