In a beehive, the queen bee is the center of the colony. She is the only female bee that lays eggs. The worker bees dedicate ...

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 ...

Queen bee standing on a supersedure cell (peanut-shaped structure, center). Within the supersedure cell is a new queen bee that the workers have reared as a replacement. It sounds like the plot of a ...

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.

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...