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Did you know that one bee has to fly approximately 90,000 miles (144,841 kilometres), or about three times around the Earth, and gather nectar from some 2 million flowers to make a mere 1 pound (0.45 kilograms) of honey? That's a lot of work for just one little Apis mellifera. So it's a good thing honey bees are well-organized, task-oriented insects who stick together like family in colonies of several thousand workers per hive.

And did you know that the honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by humans (unless, of course, cockroach milk takes off and becomes a thing)? And that honey is nature's perfect food?

A team of researchers from France and Australia has identified the neurological mechanism that underlies honeybee aggression in response to threats. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes their study of honeybees and what they found.

Scientists have uncovered which bacterial species in the bee gut allow them to digest their pollen-rich diet.

Honey bees provide 'pollination services' worth billions of dollars to US agriculture. Understanding honey bee populations requires understanding their origins in the Middle East and Africa.

Under-resourced in an overworked agricultural system, honeybee colonies are gradually failing in most temperate regions.