Researchers uncover how the fruitless gene steers brain development and social feeding behavior in male honeybees.

Passing down shared knowledge from one generation to the next is a hallmark of culture and allows animals to rapidly adapt to a changing environment. While widely evident in species ranging from human ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers. Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers ...

Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers at the University of Bristol. The findings, published today in Current Biology, show that social bees ...