On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...
Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat.
Are drunk bees a thing? According to this Instagram post, it’s actually possible for bees to be bounced at the hive entrance ...
Bees swarm when their hive is crowded and full of honey. As that point approaches, worker bees build special “queen cups,” round wax chambers that look like peanuts and rise above the familiar ...
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 ...