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Bees don’t just follow dance directions - they recall landscapes, use memory, and build cognitive maps to guide efficient ...

Human influences have the potential to reduce the effectivity of communication in bees adding further stress to struggling colonies, according to new analysis. Scientists at the University of Bristol ...

The waggle dance, performed by successful forager honeybees (Apis mellifera) inside the hive, is a well-known form of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could ...

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 ...

More than 20 years ago, Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch discovered that bees communicate by dancing on the honeycomb. Last week his pupil, Dr. Wolfgang Steche, 38, of Bonn’s Institute for Bee ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – As trees and flowers blossom in spring, bees emerge from their winter nests and burrows. For many species it’s time to mate, and some will start new solitary nests or colonies.

STATE COLLEGE (KDKA) - Researchers at Penn State came up with a small but mighty way to learn honeybees' hive secrets. Scientists glued teeny tiny QR codes, that are smaller than a pinky nail, to the ...

Human influences have the potential to reduce the effectivity of communication in bees adding further stress to struggling colonies, according to new analysis. Human influences have the potential to ...