The increase in pollen collecting behavior linked to young brood may have implications for bee keepers and agricultural crops. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...

Bees do not create honey ... move a recently laid egg into a queen cell to produce her replacement. While workers select which fertilized eggs to brood in queen or worker cells, the queen decides ...

Ever wonder what it takes to start a bee colony? For aspiring beekeepers ... This mite reproduces, lays eggs in brood cells, then feeds on the larva for energy, killing them in the process.

We savor the distinctive and flavorful honey ripened from floral nectars ... Certain “cuckoo bees” sneak their eggs into the open brood cells of unrelated bees. Upon hatching, their larvae ...

As the days get warmer, there will be more and more activity at the entrances of honey bee hives. Honey bee colonies should ...

As one of the nation’s top beekeeping states, Texas bees are responsible for producing over 7 million pounds of honey annually, and pollinating a variety of crops all across the U.S. But, over the ...

Essentially, the foundation helps bees orient themselves by creating similarly shaped wax cells where they will store honey or raise brood. Although you can use plastic or wax foundation ...

and some bees in the genus Anthophora face the snow as newly hatched young. These young are kept in brood cells, which are formed in small nooks and crannies: underground burrows or in holes in trees.

As natural pollinators, Cambodia’s native honey bees are key to the survival of the country’s forests and farms. But these ...

The Varroa destructor mite may be tiny — only a millimetre or two long — but it poses a massive threat to honey ... a "brood break", which involves temporarily removing the queen bee from ...

There are large black-and-white photographs of blood cells. An 11-foot long sculpture of a skin flake flutters gently. An enormous sphere, like a beach ball, has its surface printed with an abstract ...