Pesticide exposure may quietly weaken honeybee colonies as queens shift harmful chemicals into their developing eggs.

Worker bees are the first line of defense when it comes to removing contamination in honeybee colonies, but a queen has her ...

Honeybee queens are passing pesticide contamination to their eggs, a phenomenon termed 'maternal offloading' by UC Davis ...

Some queens don't rule nonstop. A new study from the University of California, Riverside shows that even bumble bee queens, the sole founders of their colonies, take regular breaks from ...

Scientists found low doses of a widely used pesticide disrupt bee reproduction by altering genes in their ovaries rather than ...