When the results of Canada's national honey bee colony loss survey were published in July 2025, they came as no surprise.

Honey bee colonies have a surprising way of ensuring survival. When a queen bee weakens due to virus infection, her pheromone signals decline. Worker bees sense this weakness and instinctively raise a ...

Honey bee colonies are often portrayed as models of stability, yet inside the hive, power can change hands with ruthless efficiency. When workers decide their monarch is no longer fit to lead, they ...

New research reveals how viral infections in queen bees disturb colony stability and pinpoints a specific pheromone that may help preserve unity and productivity within hives. It may sound like the ...

The bee business is big business for business owners and beekeepers Travis and Chiara Bolton of "Bolton Bees." The entrepreneurs are currently traveling south to Texas from Minnesota as temperatures ...

Andrew Cote is proof that you don’t need lots of land to take care of bees. A longtime beekeeper, Cote learned the art of caring for bees and cultivating honey from his family, which has been working ...

Worker bees stage coordinated revolts when viral infections weaken their queen and lower her pheromone output. This disruption drives many of the queen failures that beekeepers struggle with today.