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 become a large future queen built to survive winter and start a colony of her ...

A pregnant naked mole rat can shut down reproduction across her entire colony using a single chemical compound, and ...

It sounds like the plot of a medieval historical drama: A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such high-stakes coups ...

Against the backdrop of the worst recorded US honeybee colony loss in modern history — more than half of all managed colonies destroyed in a single year — a new peer-reviewed study has uncovered a ...

For decades, scientists thought royal jelly was the secret ingredient that turned an ordinary honeybee larva into a queen. New research reveals the process is far more remarkable: young worker bees ...