Working with others across the country and around the world UVM researchers are helping develop testing to help beekeepers ...

Bees do not create honey ... While workers select which fertilized eggs to brood in queen or worker cells, the queen decides the sex of her young. In a mechanism of sex determination known ...

As the eggs hatch, nurse bees feed the developing larvae ... a stronger signal -- it's growing as the dead brood is basically decomposing in the cell. The signals that are coming out of unhealthy ...

As the eggs hatch, nurse bees feed the developing larvae ... a stronger signal—it's growing as the dead brood is basically decomposing in the cell. The signals that are coming out of an ...

A new hygienic testing method helps identify bee colonies better at preventing sickness. Now, scientists are working to breed these colonies to generate more resilient hives for commercial and ...

Bumblebee wax moths, native to Eurasia and North Africa, seek out nests of bumblebees, honeybees, or wasps to lay their eggs ... and closed brood cells as well as recently eclosed bees.