A queen bee's life begins with one of the most dramatic battles in the insect world, where only a single ruler can survive.

Queen pheromones in Megalopta bees tell daughters when it's worth sacrificing their fertility to help their mom ...

Biologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute investigated a flexible social bee species, which helps shed light ...

Female sweat bees need to make a pivotal life decision: remain in the nest to help their mother raise more offspring or leave to establish nests of their own. New research from the Smithsonian ...

Inside a beehive, thousands of nearly identical worker bees somehow keep every job filled without a supervisor handing out ...

Below, you’ll find a list of rules and requirements to play the game. It will take some practice to get a feel for and get used to how the Spelling Bee is formatted, because trying to remember that ...