Last week’s column (March 22, AJ’s Gardening for You) briefly explored the critical importance of honey bees to the foods we rely on for healthy and varied nourishment. Honey bees are the link between ...
When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That’s a good question, because it’s complicated. A queen bee is a female bee that is the only bee in the hive to lay eggs. She is ...
There’s more than one way to save honeybees. Raina Jain has come up with two so far — and she’s still in college. While in high school, the Connecticut native became aware of how critters called ...
When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...
Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...
The hives of honeybees show a division of labor that, as suggested by a perspective in the latest issue of Science, the powers that be in Brave New World would be proud of. Young workers service the ...