If you’re a bee, your life (and the lives of 50,000 sisters in the hive) depends on navigation. Particularly, on your ability to find a jackpot of flowers and make your way back. The main tool for ...

Can honeybees recognize the beekeepers face? New research by Dr. Dyer from the Monash University in Australia, published in the science journal “PloS ONE”, indicates that bees can learn to recognize ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of bee behavior helps explain why glossy petals are scarce in nature. Shiny “flowers” stand out like tiny lighthouses ...

The researcher and National Geographic Explorer is helping uncover how bees’ environments shape their smarts. National Geographic Explorer Felicity Muth holds a vial while conducting fieldwork to ...

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Penn State’s Center for Pollinator Research has a new resource to help gardeners, beekeepers, and other bee-interested citizens keep track of how bees are doing in their neighborhood. Beescape is a ...

The study highlights a big idea: intelligence comes from how brains, bodies and the environment work together. It demonstrates how even tiny insect brains can solve complex visual tasks using very few ...