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 ...

Did you know... If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) to replace here. They help it to grow into a developed ...

which makes her the doted-upon mother of all of the bees in the hive. Unlike termites, who have both a king and queen, the unique biology of honeybees make it impossible for male royalty as the ...

Of a queen mating on the wing ... because we did not want to harm the bee, and we wanted to make sure it had the freedom to move its wings. A special kind of arrangement enabled us to fix the ...

To make one pound of honey ... Nurtured with food bearing a slightly higher sugar content, queen bees are slightly larger than worker bees. Being the Queen During the mating flight several ...

drone bees and the queen. He then discovers how bees make honey from plant nectar and store it in honeycombs inside the hive. Finally he sees how the bee farmer collects and bottles the honey ...

Staff Writer To this day, Lindsay Hudak can remember that she tripped up on the word “petroleum” and didn’t make it to the district spelling bee. “Yes, I do remember ...