A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem: a dozen larval mason bees striking the inner walls ...

Toddlers and tweens have very different needs, which influence how parents provide for them. The same is true in honey bees, but instead of communicating their needs via language, honey bee larvae ...

A newly developed video technique has allowed scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt at the Bee Research Institute of the Polytechnical Society to record the complete development of a honey bee in ...

A team of scientists at Oregon State University has recently received more than $4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lead a study to understand a disease threatening honeybees. The ...

Dalan has created the first vaccine for honey bees that will protect against American Foulbrood. The vaccine is approved by the USDA. Female-founded insect biotech company Dalan Animal Health, Inc.

Bee larvae and pupae appear to secrete a chemical that does the work of a late-night cup of coffee for their nurses. If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that taking care of babies is a ...

May 26 (UPI) --Using a new video technique, scientists have documented the ill effects of pesticides on the nursing behavior and larval development of honeybees. When exposed to neonicotinoids, one of ...

Researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae, can reduce the effects of nutritional stress on developing bees. Indiana University researchers have ...

A few years ago, Adrian Carper, who is in my department and also the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me about a species of bee that could chew nest holes into ...

Carpenter bees can attract woodpeckers and lead to lots of damage to Georgia homes. Woodpeckers tend to feed in one spot for long periods of time and can cause significant damage to homes when ...