Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University recently published findings in Science Advances tying specific bee ...

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 ...

A new study has shown that bumblebees pick up new 'trends' in their behavior by watching and learning from other bees, and that one form of a behavior can spread rapidly through a colony even when a ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Honeybees are very social insects, often living in large colonies under the aegis of a queen, who lays eggs that are tended by the worker-bees (all female). The workers forage for nectar and pollen in ...