The swarming season for honeybees in South Africa has begun. The summer months and spring are usually when bees reproduce and ...
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 ...
As that point approaches, worker bees build special “queen cups,” round wax chambers that look like peanuts and rise above the familiar hexagonal wax cells. The queen lays eggs in those cells, and the ...
From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...