We've all heard about how busy bees are, but the notion doesn't hint at just how many of them work together to produce a jar ...
Commercial beekeepers saw well over 50% losses this winter. As California prepares for almond season, and for fruits like ...
In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 ... Forcipomyia beats its wings over 62,000 cycles ...
Scientists unfold the secret lives of bees using QR codes. Here's all the secrets they found.
Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs to track when they go in and out of their hives. The work, a collaboration among entomologists ...
They carpet a crescent-shaped hive stretching almost six feet below a granite overhang. The bees are guarding gallons of a sticky, reddish fluid known as mad honey, which, thanks to its ...
If you watched the NOVA program "Tales From the Hive ... bee up with this—very carefully, because we did not want to harm the bee, and we wanted to make sure it had the freedom to move its ...