Heat can change a honey bee's hormone levels, but only if the bee is alone. New research from MSU entomologist Zachary Huang ...

Have you ever wondered how bees manage to turn nectar into that golden, sticky sweetness we all love? It’s a fascinating process that blends nature’s engineering with the bees' hard work, and it’s ...

STATE COLLEGE (KDKA) - Researchers at Penn State came up with a small but mighty way to learn honeybees' hive secrets. Scientists glued teeny tiny QR codes, that are smaller than a pinky nail, to the ...

From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...

Margarita Lopez-Uribe reveals how squash bees evolved to thrive on our modern farms. Pollination gets personal when Shane meets Margarita Lopez-Uribe, an entomologist who studies squash bees — a wild, ...

When I was a kid one of my favorite books was “Where They Go in Winter” by Margaret Waring Buck. I think I was around 7 years old when it came out. The illustrations and explanations of how a variety ...

A new study examines how bees adapt to build honeycombs on top of various 3D-printed foundations. Golnar Gharooni-Fard Honeycombs are marvels of engineering—the bees that create them will work ...

What inspired you to become a researcher? I’ve always had a passion for nature and biodiversity, ever since I was a child (David Attenborough was, and still is, an inspiration). After completing my ...

Note: The following transcript was transcribed digitally and validated for accuracy, readability and formatting by an OPB volunteer. Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. About ...