An Italian queen in a hive of black bees will beget workers of mixed blood, but her sons are pure Italians. Drones are useful as fathers of workers, but they cannot collect the honey they eat.

Queen Elizabeth's bees make enough honey for the Royal estate to be self-sufficient THE QUEEN goes one step further than everyone else to ensure she is environmentally-conscious.

Even the royal bees are mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II. In a new report from The Daily Mail, royal beekeeper John Chapple revealed that he was required to inform the royal hive at ...

Italian bee monarchs driving Maltese queens towards ‘extinction’ Fondazzjoni għall-Konservazzjoni tan-Naħla Maltija want a ban on the importation of foreign queen bees to safeguard the endemic Maltese ...

REBEL WITH A CAUSE When a queen honeybee leaves her colony to start another elsewhere, rebel worker bees seize the chance to lay eggs, producing only males that live to mate.. Karolina Kuszewska ...