Bumble bees sustain many of our most nutritious crops, while honey bees underpin food production across the globe.

Bees obviously can’t use this skill on human level, but this progress could help scientists better grasp complex cognitive-like traits.

So different, yet so alike. Through pollination, bees play an important role in the ecosystem, affecting the life cycle of plants, biodiversity and agricultural production. Their presence goes hand in ...

What can a honey bee tell us about human learning? According to researchers at Virginia Tech and Arizona State University, more than you might think. Their findings, published in Science Advances on ...

Bumblebees and chimpanzees can learn skills from their peers so complicated that they could never have mastered them on their own, an ability previously thought to be unique to humans, two studies ...

So different, yet so alike. Through pollination, bees play an important role in the ecosystem, affecting the life cycle of plants, biodiversity and agricultural production. Their presence goes hand in ...

Stressed bees are much more likely to make pessimistic choices and lack a buzz in life. Stressed bees are much more likely to make pessimistic choices and lack a buzz in life, new research has ...

When you hear the term “busy as a bee” most people think about bees rapidly flitting from blossom to blossom collecting nectar and pollen. Collecting their food source is just the beginning. Once bees ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London, the study focused on a specialized maze that led to ...