When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

In chess, the queen is the most valuable piece for a player. She’s capable of making any move, which also makes her the most protected after the king. In a bee colony, the queen holds the same rank.

Eventually, the males will leave the nest to mate with new queens from other colonies. As the queen’s colony grows, its members will be engaged in lots of nectar and pollen guzzling. To achieve this, ...

It sounds like the plot of a medieval historical drama: A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such high-stakes coups ...

That’s a good question, because it’s complicated. A queen bee is a female bee that is the only bee in the hive to lay eggs. She is also the largest bee in the hive. If you think that wasps have queens ...