A bumblebee lands on the flowers of a white sloe bush. Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images Stephen Buchmann, University of Arizona As trees and flowers blossom in spring, bees emerge from ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

When a honey bee returns to the nest after foraging for food, it breaks into dance. Moving in a figure-eight shape while shaking its abdomen helps the bee communicate to others how far away the ...

The honeybee waggle dance has long been lauded as one of the planet's most complex animal communication systems, second only to human language in terms of its ability to transmit diverse information ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Elizabeth Jayne White, Jair Garcia, and Scarlett Howard do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company ...

Honeybees are among the smartest animals in the world, even with all the caveats that go with trying to measure animal intelligence. They have a symbolic language system for communicating the location ...