A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such ...

A honeybee queen mates only during one brief period of her life, storing sperm in a sac inside her body for later use. But if she fails to keep that sperm viable, her colony may collapse. This “queen ...

A team of University Montana students has built a mobile-phone app that allows beekeepers to record the sound of their colony to determine whether it’s healthy or not. It seems that when the "hum" of ...