The queen bee might live for a few years, much longer than female worker bees and drones. Other animals also live in social groups with a division of labor between those who reproduce and those ...
Females must fight or sneak into a colony of western bumblebees and kill or subdue the host colony’s queen. The cuckoo queen bee then lays her own eggs and gains control of the host colony’s worker ...
Only those with 20/20 vision and a high IQ are able to spot the queen amongst all the other bees in under 11 seconds ... And another: the average worker bee lives for around five or six weeks ...
Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs to track when they go in and out of their hives. The work, a collaboration among entomologists ...