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 ...

Honey bee queens reared inside cells built from ordinary worker wax develop smaller bodies and die at sharply higher rates before reaching adulthood, according to a peer-reviewed study published in ...

WITH its huge doe-like eyes and cuddly exterior, this beast sure looks cute. But we all know how looks can be deceptive. Holcopasites heliopsis is a cuckoo bee – an egg-munching, larva-killing ...

Researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae, can reduce the effects of nutritional stress on developing bees—one of the leading causes of honey bee ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Even as larvae, honey bees are tuned in to the social culture of the hive, becoming more or less aggressive depending on who raises them, researchers report in the journal ...

The Department of Agriculture has conditionally approved a new vaccine meant to protect honeybees from a bacterial disease that can affect the bee's larvae. There will be a new vaccine on the market, ...

The European oil beetle's life cycle is truly spectacular. The tiny larvae of this species of blister beetles must find their way into the nests of solitary bee species to survive. There, they feed on ...