Some animals are able to use iron-based magnetic compounds such as magnetite to detect and navigate via the Earth’s magnetic ...

Some 60,000 Italian honeybees live, and work, on a rooftop at The Times’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters. By Megan McCrea Megan McCrea visited the New York Times hives with the beekeepers who take ...

A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

When a honeybee colony must find a new home, up to 10,000 bees make one of the most important decisions of their ...

Microbiome sequencing has a reputation issue. From the outside, it appears to be one of modern biology's most powerful tools: ...

Researchers found that specific brain circuits help decide which jobs bees perform as they age. When those circuits were switched off, older worker bees began caring for the queen again instead of ...

Research on honeybees reveals insights into efficient decision-making in cluttered environments, influencing the design of ...

America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most. The closure comes at a critical moment for bees. In winter 2025, many beekeepers lost over half their ...

New Delhi: World Bee Day 2026 falls on 20 May, a global observance designed to raise awareness of the crucial role bees and other pollinators play in our food systems, biodiversity and healthy ...

Neighbors on Lambert Street say the bees have taken up residence beneath a parking space, creating a buzz that has lasted for weeks. PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It is peak swarm season, and beekeepers are ...

The “hive mind” of honeybees is often lauded as an exemplar that humans should strive to emulate. Much scholarship on the insects explores them as a “superorganism”—one animal as a collective, rather ...