Honey is the sweet, sticky, delicious condiment that’s loved across the world. In 2021, the global honey industry was valued at approximately $8 billion, per Statista. Bees work overtime to produce ...

Most bee species do not make honey, but those that do, as you might guess, are specifically called honey bees. They go into the center of flowers and collect nectar, a sugary water. Plants produce ...

As a science cat, I don’t stir honey into my tea or drizzle it on my biscuits. I don’t have taste receptors for sweet things. Honey doesn’t have a taste to me. But my human friends gobble up the honey ...

A dozen fifth-graders peer at a blown-up microscope image of a Varroa mite. “It’s not a pretty thing,” master beekeeper Carmen Weiland tells them. The mite has a bulbous body, eight segmented legs ...

Research reveals how millions of years of evolution has engineered honey bees to make fast decisions and reduce risk. Honey bees have to balance effort, risk and reward, making rapid and accurate ...

Honey bees have to balance effort, risk and reward, making rapid and accurate assessments of which flowers are mostly likely to offer food for their hive. Research published in the journal eLife today ...