Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

A honeybee returning to its hive may appear to be moving at random, but every twist, turn and vibration can carry vital information. Rather than relying on sounds or scents alone, honeybees perform an ...

A dancing honey bee (center) is surrounded by an audience of “followers” that carefully interpret the movements of the ultra-fast ‘waggle’ dance. Dance like nobody’s watching? Not quite, at least not ...

WHEN Karl von Frisch decoded the secret language of bees in 1946, even he couldn’t quite believe what he had found. Was it really possible for a creature with a brain smaller than a pinhead to do ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

Bees are amazing highly intelligent, very likely sentient, and emotional animals. Bee expert Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau's new book titled What Do Bees Think About? is an eye-opening and mind-expanding ...

A new study by Chinese scientists reveals that the honey bee waggle dance—one of the most famous examples of animal communication—is not a one-way communication but, in fact, a dynamic, two-way ...

“Human beings and honey bees are almost the same word.” According to Prof. Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor in Biology Emeritus, in addition to these phonetic similarities, honey bees also ...

Researchers at the University of Freiburg used drone-based FLO tracking to reveal that honey bees follow highly consistent flight paths, repeating routes with centimetre-level precision.