A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem: a dozen larval mason bees striking the inner walls ...

The Department of Agriculture has conditionally approved a new vaccine meant to protect honeybees from a bacterial disease that can affect the bee's larvae. There will be a new vaccine on the market, ...

Dalan has created the first vaccine for honey bees that will protect against American Foulbrood. The vaccine is approved by the USDA. Female-founded insect biotech company Dalan Animal Health, Inc.

Toddlers and tweens have very different needs, which influence how parents provide for them. The same is true in honey bees, but instead of communicating their needs via language, honey bee larvae ...

A newly developed video technique has allowed scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt at the Bee Research Institute of the Polytechnical Society to record the complete development of a honey bee in ...

Bee larvae and pupae appear to secrete a chemical that does the work of a late-night cup of coffee for their nurses. If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that taking care of babies is a ...

Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens or short-lived sterile workers who help rear their sisters rather than lay ...

Silver Lyan. 900 F St. NW. Ryan Chetiyawardana—known as Mr Lyan—is world famous for his cutting-edge cocktails. At his DC bar, Silver Lyan in Penn Quarter’s Riggs hotel, the London-based barman has ...

A few years ago, Adrian Carper, who is in my department and also the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me about a species of bee that could chew nest holes into ...