With the warm weather, bees are finally getting the chance to pollinate. This is something farms have been waiting for weeks to do. Beekeepers say those weeks of missed pollination could have some ...

Cape honey bees are found in South Africa, and while they look similar, they are reproductively different from other subspecies of honey bee. The eggs of Cape worker honey bees develop into females, ...

image: Cape honey bee workers laying parasitic eggs on a queen cell. view more Credit: Professor Benjamin Oldroyd/University of Sydney In a study published today in Current Biology, researchers from ...

Researchers have identified the single gene that determines how Cape honey bees reproduce without ever having sex. One gene, GB45239 on chromosome 11, is responsible for virgin births. In a study ...