honey bee

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The observations revealed that each honey bee follows its own preferred route and maintains that path with exceptional accuracy on both outbound and return trips.

From Science Daily • Jun. 14, 2026

Winters can be tough on managed honey bee colonies, with beekeepers in the United States reporting that one-third of their colonies die each winter.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

The past attempts of honey bee researchers to inventory the fungal diversity in honey bee colonies revealed that Aspergillus flavus is frequently found in hives.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

More research is needed to unravel how the stressors are interacting and impacting honey bee mortality and colony health going forward, says French.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd