honeybee

Recent research shows that the insect’s microbial community is central to protecting the hive from invaders—both big and small.

Asian giant hornets were found for the first time in Washington State and could reemerge in the spring.

Honeybees can remember reward-associated odors three days after a single learning experience.

Honeybees can remember reward-associated odors three days after a single learning experience.

The genetically modified bacteria spark an RNAi response in the parasite that leads to self-destruction—and perhaps a path to combatting colony collapse disorder.

US honeybee colonies took the largest hit since the Bee Informed Partnership started counting in 2006.

Four decades after it was thought to have disappeared in the wild, scientists have found a single female Wallace’s giant bee in Indonesia.

Researchers record neurological changes in a region called the mushroom body in the brains of bees completing a maze in a virtual environment.

The insects fell silent as the moon cast a shadow over parts of North America last summer, researchers report.

A bee researcher finds that his subjects are protected from viral infections when they dine on fungus.

A study of chemical tags on histone proteins hints at how the same genome can yield very different animals.

Researchers pinpoint a protein that can metabolize at least one of the insecticides, highlighting a route to identifying compounds that are friendlier to the critical pollinators.

One species has developed a novel waggle to warn about invading wasps.

Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) respond to an attack by a Vespa mandarinia wasp.

Drones exposed to neonicotinoids have fewer viable sperm and show reduced longevity.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

The consumption of p-coumaric acid, a chemical found in honey and pollen, may help set a female honeybee on its course to becoming a worker instead of a queen.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

Fewer commercial pollinators died over the winter than during the same season the preceding year.