Honey bees make honey to store up as food to last them through the winter months. During the coldest time of year, there are fewer flowers from which to collect nectar and honey bees are …

Jun 9, 2021 · A Cape honeybee foraging in red aloe flowers in southern Africa The workers of a South African subspecies of honeybee can clone themselves, with one individual having done …

Feb 14, 2017 · Headbutts come as a surprise Whoop whoop! A vibrational pulse produced by honeybees , long thought to be a signal to other bees to stop what they are doing, might …

Aug 5, 2024 · There are secrets aplenty in a pot of honey – from information about bees' "micro-bee-ota" to DNA from the environment – that can help us fight food fraud and even monitor …

Dec 18, 2007 · No wonder the females aren’t especially enamoured. As bees go, the 200 or so species of orchid bee are a curious bunch: they are solitary and do not make honey.

Oct 24, 2022 · Swarms of western honeybees can generate an electric charge of 1000 volts per metre, a voltage density greater than thunderstorm clouds and electrified dust storms

Sep 29, 2016 · To see whether bumblebee behaviour follows similar patterns, Perry and his colleagues trained 24 bees to associate particular locations and colours in the lab with …

Sep 26, 2000 · Honeybees are avid drinkers, and this could make them ideal for research into drugs to treat alcoholism, say researchers. Most animals have to be tricked into drinking …

Jun 21, 1997 · But middle-aged bees take up a wide variety of jobs including accepting food from foragers, guarding the hive, working with wax and, in some cases, disposing of dead bodies.

Nov 28, 2005 · Combining robotic modelling with slow-motion videos of airborne honeybees may have helped researchers explain the curious aerodynamics of bee flight. Aeronautical …