While seeing a bee may fill some with fright, they are vital to our ecosystem. Bees are special because they are sole pollinators every spring; in fact, the majority of the food we eat depends on bees ...

A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioral biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the flight behavior of honey bees. Using a drone, the researchers tracked honey ...

Bees are amazing animals. Detailed studies show that they enjoy rich and deep social, cognitive, and emotional lives. They display dopamine-based positive emotions, get depressed, anxious, and ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once turned piles of animal bones into nurseries. Instead of burrowing into soil ...

Asian honey bees (Apis cerana) collect animal feces and carefully arrange it around their nest entrances to deter the attacks of giant hornets, according to a study by Heather Mattila at Wellesley ...

Asian Giant Hornets, commonly known as murder hornets, can wipe out entire hives of honeybees within a matter of hours, but it turns out, honeybees have a pretty ingenious way of fighting back. Their ...