Giant honeybees, including Apis dorsata (shown), send waves cascading across their open nests by flipping their abdomens upward in a coordinated motion. The behavior seems to deter bee predators ...

The Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata, builds its large single-comb ... Colonies are known to create an insulating 'bee curtain' of five to seven layers of bees covering the single central ...

Here we show that colonies of the giant honeybee Apis dorsata are able to find the same nest location even after seasonal migration. As worker bees do not have first-hand knowledge of the old nest ...