When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

As heat waves intensify and seasons slip out of their old patterns, the survival of honey bees is becoming a test case for how agriculture adapts to a hotter planet. Researchers are now pushing toward ...

The molecular mechanisms driving honey bee fate have been revealed. Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens or ...