Other insects we may use as food (entomophagy), eating their larvae or adults, but only bees make honey, a food both they and we eat.

It makes sense that bees would "hear" the vibrations we call sound waves with their antennae, but "hearing" with their legs? A group, of sensors on the bee's tibia, called the subgenual organ, pick up the vibrations of air and of the substrate on which the bee is standing. Inside the dark hive, bees experience the waggle dance via those vibrations of air and comb through the subgenual organs and the Johnston's organs of the antennae.

Swarm.

By mis-bee-hiving.

One queen at a time is the norm. More than one queen can be seen by the beekeeper if the workers have raised a replacement queen for the existing one, usually because they sense the older queen is failing. Sometimes in the spring, mother and daughter are both in the hive and laying but later in the season, the mother has disappeared. In a different situation, when honey bees are swarming to start a new colony, the original queen leaves before the new queens in cells emer

A: Rum-buzz.

A: A mumble bee!

One queen at a time is the norm. More than one queen can be seen by the beekeeper if the workers have raised a replacement queen for the existing one, usually because they sense the older queen is failing. Sometimes in the spring, mother and daughter are both in the hive and laying but later in the season, the mother has disappeared. In a different situation, when honey bees are swarming to start a new colony, the original queen leaves before the new queens in cells emer

A: Because they are filled with US Bees!

A. mellifera behavior and movement is studied to understand group behavior, not just in animals, but possibly in ways that could predict human behavior in groups, and also in ways that might be used in robotics. Check out this Georgia Tech video which begins by discussing the waggle dance and then at the very end of this 7 minute youtube video, discusses the connection between bee behavior and robotics. https://youtu.be/bFDGPgXtK-U

A: For buying and selling nucs.

A: A spelling bee

The bumble bee Bombus impatiens; it is shipped in small hives, each containing only dozens of bees with one queen and brood, usually for placement in greenhouses.

A worker uses her front pair of legs for many tasks but the front legs are specially designed to clean her antennae with bristles in a notch such that she can pull her antennae past them in order to brush particles off them. It's a built-in antennae cleaner! The arrow in the picture points to the notch into which the bee places her antenna to pull it through and past those bristles. Photo taken from Penn State Beekeeping 101 course.

A: You’re so bee-you-tiful!

Individual bees are cold blooded. At about 42 degrees F, bees can't move because their muscles are not warm enough, per The Beekeeper's Handbook , 5th ed., 2021, Diana Sammataro & Alphonse Avitabile. However, the colony as a whole is a warm-blooded superorganism. Bees in winter cluster can keep the queen at 68-70 degrees F in subzero temperatures and when the colony starts to raise brood at the end of winter, the colony must keep its core temperature around the brood at

A: A wanna-bee!

Only Apis mellifera and Apis cerana nest in cavities with sufficient population to be easily managed for honey harvest. A. florea and others nest in cavities but not in large enough colonies to make regular tending and honey harvest practical. Apis cerana colonies are much smaller, perhaps one-quarter the size of Apis mellifera, so they yield a much smaller honey harvest per colony. Photo above is of an Apis cerana managed colony in the trunk of a coconut tree. photo by

Beekeepers like everything to bee about them.

Beauty, because beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder.