The honeybee (Apis mellifera) forms two female castes: the queen and the worker. This dimorphism depends not on genetic differences, but on ingestion of royal jelly, although the mechanism through ...

The honeybee, with its black and yellow coat, exemplifies pollinator prowess. Apis mellifera, or honeybees, are extraordinary insects that pollinate about 15 billion worth of food crops each year ...

Queen honeybees not only mate with lots of males, but they also brag about it to the whole hive. A chemical signal from queen bee glands lets the female worker bees know that her mating dalliances ...

Bresnahan ST, Mahony S, Anton K, Harpur B, Grozinger CM. Intragenomic conflict associated with extreme phenotypic plasticity in queen-worker caste determination in honey bees (Apis mellifera). Genome ...

Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4285-0 ...

Even honeybee queens have rebellious kids. In a colony of European honeybees (Apis mellifera), only the queen lays eggs that hatch into female workers who maintain the hive and nurse the young.But ...

Considering the ecological importance of honeybees (Apis mellifera), it is important to learn whether or not, and how behavior influences their personality. In light of current concern regarding the ...

Jaqueline Campos-Jiménez, Jordan Golubov, José García-Franco, Claudia Álvarez-Aquino, Armando J. Martínez, Temporal variation in the behavior of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and ...