Honey bees are best known for their essential role in pollinating much of the food we eat, but their importance extends far ...

Bees rarely attract much attention unless a hive appears somewhere unexpected or a jar of honey is sitting on a kitchen shelf ...

In the context of communication among honeybees, their waggle dance and stop signal behaviour, polite manners of bees, communication research on Apis mellifera and their foraging behaviour, all play ...

Scientists have discovered how honeybees can decipher dances by their hive mates that relay directions to food. The findings reveal how, in the complete darkness of the hive, each bee uses its ...

More than 20 years ago, Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch discovered that bees communicate by dancing on the honeycomb. Last week his pupil, Dr. Wolfgang Steche, 38, of Bonn’s Institute for Bee ...

No creature fascinates and delights the human mind quite like the honeybee, and not just because of the tasty honey it produces. Nearly every aspect of this insect’s existence provides fodder for ...