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Certain “cuckoo bees” sneak their eggs into the open brood cells of unrelated bees. Upon hatching, their larvae stab and kill the host bees’ eggs or young larvae with their ice-tong-like jaws.

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Carpenter bees, for example, overwinter individually as fully formed adults, retreating into previously constructed brood tunnels dug out of trees or wooden posts. Meanwhile, Mason bees ...

The Honeybee Shoppe, owned by Tim and Kelly Miller since 2001, produces and sells honey from 300 mobile hives.

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 ...

one of four native honey bee species in Cambodia, where global threats like climate change are compounded by local factors like the consumption of bee brood. Image courtesy of Eric Guerin.

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.

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It’s hard to live in Utah and not know the name Pamela Atkinson. It’s even on the state tax form for a homeless trust fund.