But there’s a critical learning phase in a young worker bee’s life when she’s about 8 days old — right before she becomes a full-fledged forager — which helps her to perfect her dance.

The bee is one of nature’s most prolific pollinators. There are over 20,000 bee species, most of which spread pollen between flowers. Bees can be divided into groups based on their social ...

Ultimately, it’s a worker bee’s spatial occupancy in the nest that predicts whether or not it must become a forager when the time comes to step up. In this case, those who are at the center of ...

Neonicotinoid pesticides commonly found in agricultural areas kill bees and hurt their ability to reproduce, two separate large-scale studies confirmed Thursday.

STATS Queens per Hive: 1 Workers per Queen: 10,000–50,000 Average Lifespan of a Worker Bee, in Months: 3 Managed Honeybee Colonies in 2011 in the U.S.: 2.49 Million ...

Nutrition matters: Stress from migratory beekeeping may be eased by access to food Date: August 24, 2016 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: In the first large-scale and comprehensive ...