We mention this as being of historical significance but are not recommending this method of removing ear wax. It is still practiced...

The demand for beeswax in personal care and pharmaceutics will remain high due to consumer demand for natural additives, organic...

Apitherapy is the medicinal use of products from bees including venom, propolis, honey, pollen, and royal jelly. The last 3 are...

It's not surprising that bees would be attracted by a static electric charge, given their sensitive antennae and the hairs covering their...

If a forager goes very far from the hive, she must carry enough nectar in her crop for her to consume to make the trip out. If collecting...

The fat bees (bees with larger fat bodies) produced by the colony last fall are old now, putting the last of their life’s energy into...

Honey bees are examples of super efficiency in the insect world in just about everything they do. Take flight for example. A fly (Order...

As beekeepers know, every hive is different and some are more intent on one task or another: raising brood, making honey or collecting...

Many native bees species or other pollinator species depend on one or a few species of flowers for their diet. The monarch butterfly is...

Most of the foragers collect either honey or pollen, with a few specializing in water or propolis. Only about 15% of foragers have been...

One reason given for varietal size difference of the pollen baskets on returning foragers is the stickiness of the pollen. Some flowering...

Pollen is not all yellow or orange; bees find and collect quite a range of colors. This is particularly noticeable late in the summer in...

Honey bees are not the fastest flying insects. In contrast, it appears to be generally agreed that dragonflies are among the fastest...

It is believed that worker bees don’t sleep until they are foraging age. Until then they are cleaning, nursing the brood, tending the...

If the honey bee queen can lay over 1000 eggs per day during spring and summer when the hive is most populous and most active, the bees...

Throughout the world, people eat insects in their egg, larval, pupal or adult stages, a behavior known as entomophagy. However, the only...

Studies of the brain of a honey bee, only about a cubic millimeter in volume, yield valuable information in medical research, information...

Bees are fuzzy, not just covered by hairs, but covered by plumose (branched) hairs which trap particulates. This trait aids their...

“Mad honey" is honey from the nectar of certain plants, particularly the Ericaceae family, which includes rhododendron, pieris and other...

Worker bee life span during summer may only be 7 weeks, about 4 of them flying. During the winter some of the workers live 5 months or...