Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The queen, on the right with a larger, darker body, is bigger than the worker bees in the colony and lives several times longer.

Drones have no father. When I heard that, I was a little surprised. Last time, while researching drones, I learned that they ...

When I want something sweet, I pull out a jar of honey made by my bee friends at Washington State University. I talked about your question with one of the insect scientists there, Rae Olsson. They ...

There are between 115,000 and 125,000 beekeepers in the U.S. during any given year. According to the National Honey Board, most of these keep less than 25 hives as a hobby. Commercial beekeepers ...

The queen becomes the mother of most of the bees in the hive. All the worker bees are female. Any drone lucky enough to mate with a virgin queen drops dead afterwards. It's a matriarchal society all ...