A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

Scientists discovered that two brain chemicals in honey bees can predict how fast they will learn, offering new insight into ...

Unlike human vision, which prioritizes high resolution and fine detail, honeybee vision is low resolution but highly specialized for detecting the visual signals that matter most for survival—flowers.

When a bee flies into your garden, it doesn’t see what you and I see. Flowers leap out from much darker-looking leafy backgrounds, and they have ultraviolet-reflecting landing strips that show the way ...

Like fans in a stadium, giant honeybees at their nest make big, rippling audience waves, new video shows. And the bee waves are spooky enough to drive away predatory hornets, an international research ...