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Congratulations to Michelle and Tyler Matheson, the winners of the set of wooden ware donated by our President Dave Morris at the February club meeting.

Sometimes it’s your fault for spacing frames too far apart; sometimes the bees just overdo it for reasons of their own.  They build cross-comb in the form of towers between frames or...

Aaaaah, April! My fantasy is that older bees have been telling fantastic stories all winter to their younger kin about vast clouds of white plum and apple blossoms and fields of golden dandelions to...

The Queen Mum She has no golden slippers, no dainty foot-ornaments to show her royal rank, nor even an occasional pedicure. Nonetheless, the honey bee queen has precious and fragile feet....

In Part 1 of "The Honey Bee's Good Taste" on this blog, I described WHERE the honey bee’s gustatory receptors are located (on the antennae, the mouthparts, and the two front feet); WHAT these...

The European bee-eater (along with our Pacific Northwest scrub jay and others) might think bees taste pretty good, but here we’ll explore the honey bee’s good ability to taste, rather than its...

Honey bees have no lungs or diaphragm, nor do they bring air in and out through the mouth…and there is no “nose” at all.  Instead, air is exchanged through a set of ten pairs of tiny...