New research reveals how viral infections in queen bees disturb colony stability and pinpoints a specific pheromone that may help preserve unity and productivity within hives. It may sound like the ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - K-State Entomologist Brian Spiesman founded the Bee Machine website in 2020. Since then, thousands of bee species have been identified, and the project has now culminated in ...

Worker bees stage coordinated revolts when viral infections weaken their queen and lower her pheromone output. This disruption drives many of the queen failures that beekeepers struggle with today.

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 ...

Honey bee colonies have a surprising way of ensuring survival. When a queen bee weakens due to virus infection, her pheromone signals decline. Worker bees sense this weakness and instinctively raise a ...

Beekeepers across the United States lost more than 55% of their colonies last year, the highest loss rate since records started being kept in 2011. A new study from University of Vermont scientists ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...