honey bee

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What sounds like the storyline of a medieval palace drama often plays out in real-life honey bee colonies.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025

From Québec to British Columbia, honey bee colonies were given the job of pollinating some of Canada's most valuable crops -- apples, canola oil and seed, highbush and lowbush blueberry, soybean, cranberry and corn.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

More research is needed to unravel how the stressors are interacting and impacting honey bee mortality and colony health going forward, says French.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

For this study, researchers ran simulations through a honey bee population dynamics model using climate projections for 2050 and the end of the century at 2100.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd