Of all the unique flying, buzzing specimens out there, bumblebees are one of the most mesmerizing…even when they’re engaging in surprising acts. Bee mating happens out in the open, and a queen’s ...

A video authentically shows a male drone bee dying after mating with a queen bee. Rating: True (About this rating?) Snopes has previously uncovered the costs of mating in the biological world, with ...

Snopes has previously uncovered the costs of mating in the biological world, with some animals essentially spending their whole lives waiting to have sex, and then they die. For female octopuses, ...

May 20 (UPI) --With the help of radar technology, scientists are gaining new insights into the sexual lives of honeybee drones. According to a new study, published Thursday in the journal iScience, ...

The success of the “reign” of a honey bee queen appears to be determined to a large degree by the number of times she mates with drone bees. That is what research by scientists in the Department of ...

They say love is blind, but bees take that literally. For a queen honeybee, the consequences of being inseminated during sex by a drone bee can be downright a-pollen, new research shows. Bee sperm ...

Sometimes it is worthwhile to look at the details, to study aspects that seem to be uninteresting or were previously ignored, and see noteworthy phenomena come to light. Researchers showed that male ...