New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes ...

At first, their movements seemed random, but a new study has compared them to bees swarming around a hive. The S-stars are all less than 100 million years old, which is considered to be relatively ...

The chromosomal material of male honeybees only comes into play to create more females for the hive. But here's where things get weird – honey bee eggs can become baby bees even without a male's ...

Discover fascinating insights into the behavior of honey bees. A new study reveals how far they travel to forage and how long ...

If you watched the NOVA program "Tales From the Hive," you're probably wondering how the filmmakers secured some of that astonishing footage of honeybees. How did they get closeups of bees in flight?

Honey bees are capable of flying long distances when they need to -- estimated to be able to fly up to 10 kilometers from their hive -- but the team hypothesized that such distance is uncommon and ...

“Can we determine exactly how far honey bees travel from their hives?” Researchers ultimately settled on a custom scanner system placed above apiary hives using low-cost, off-the-shelf ...

More than the latest in apiarian fashion, the little tags serve a scientific purpose: tracking when bees go in and out of their hives to better understand how long honey bees spend foraging for ...