Instead, particularly for honey bees, the queen is rather isolated from what ... of related offspring that required more elaborate nest structures? Or did the complex nest arise first, which ...

As its name suggests, the Asian hornet’s origin is southeast Asia, where it exists in various colour forms and co-exists with ...

If the queen can’t find a nest site and gather enough resources, or perishes before workers emerge, the colony will fail before it even gets started. Like butterflies, wasps and bees start life ...

Horchoff’s goal wasn’t to exterminate the bees but to find the queen and safely remove the bee nest to a much better location. How long did it take the bees to make a hive this big and what ...

Each Suckley’s cuckoo reproductive female goes on the hunt for an existing bumble bee nest, Hatfield said. “Usually their strategy is to kill the founder’s queen and take advantage of the ...

But the more interesting insight came later from the other, larger bees they tested. They had visited the meadow early enough in the spring that queen bumblebees, which hibernate through the winter, ...

But a fungicide, boscalid, actually improved queen survival and colony ... to better understand the risks faced by bees beneath the surface. One Bird Nest, 30 Years of Trash: A coot’s nest ...