Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...

Asian honey bees applying animal feces at the entrance of their hives to ward off attacks from hornets. Heather Mattila / Wellesley College Asian giant hornets and their similarly formidable relatives ...