A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or ...

Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen – with the responsibility of serving as the ​colony’s only baby maker – rather ...

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 ...