“Human beings and honey bees are almost the same word.” According to Prof. Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor in Biology Emeritus, in addition to these phonetic similarities, honey bees also ...

Bees rely on sunlight and polarized light to navigate, making nighttime flight dangerous and often impossible for honey bees.

Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

Bees are fascinating intelligent and sentient insects whose cognitive and emotional lives are currently receiving the attention they have long deserved from serious card-carrying scientists. 1 I ...

During the spring, honeybees are just about everywhere in the South Bay, and so is beekeeper Jack Carter. Armed with a cellphone with a honeycomb-patterned case and a garage full of beekeeping ...