Honeybees pack tens of thousands of nestmates into a small space, a setup that should invite disease.

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A radical rethink of honey bee biology challenges how scientists understand swarming and even beekeeping.

According to a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some of the smallest bees studied have photoreceptors as sharp as those of much larger honeybee drones.

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Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new fossil honeybee species that fills a long-standing gap in the evolutionary record of the genus Apis.

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