Honey bees can normally keep their hives perfectly climate-controlled, but extreme heat can overwhelm their defenses. During ...

Researchers at Arizona State University, University of Maryland and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France have found that adult bees use the changing pheromone signals of young bees ...

Extreme summer heat is overwhelming honey bee hives. Discover how high temperatures disrupt a colony's cooling system, ...

Christian W. W. Pirk received funding from University of Pretoria and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free riders” attracted to ...