Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 32, No. 3 (1993), pp. 191-198 (8 pages) The study investigates whether worker policing via the selective removal of worker-laid male eggs occurs in normal ...

Worker-reproduction is rare in queenright honey-bee colonies. When workers do lay eggs, their eggs are normally eaten by other workers presumably because they lack the queen's egg-marking signal.

The life cycle of a honey bee has been captured on film by a beekeeper in north Wales over the course of a year and is being shown to schoolchildren. The film made in the Ceiriog Valley aims to spread ...