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

The research team found that common viruses can damage a queen’s ovaries, reducing both her egg-laying rate and the ...

New research shows that viruses weaken honey bee queens, lowering pheromone signals and energy, causing workers to replace them.

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...

Bumblebee queens don t work nonstop. UC Riverside scientists discovered that queens take strategic reproductive breaks early in colony formation likely to conserve energy and increase the chance of ...

All hail the queen, she has arrived! A rare sighting has been made in Chanhassen. I have been photographing bumble bees this summer and came across a variety of them such as the red belted, ...