Science news articles about 'female bees'

... a family of very small parasitic flies called Chloropidae. The bees are important pollinators of night-blooming plants and the female bees can nest alone or live in small colonies. A ...

Mating affected if female bees ignore new male perfume

... their susceptibility to possible deleterious effects of inbreeding". The researchers mated fertile female bees in the laboratory with either their brothers or with unrelated males. Those queens that ...