Have you ever started to separate two frames during inspection and found them to be attached by chains of bees, seemingly sticking together as if caught in a web?  As you carefully widen the...

This could be serious. Dry sugar may not be so great for bees after all, in contrast to liquid syrup. A brief summary in the May 2022 issue of American Bee Journal 1 describes the findings of a...

Have you been wondering whether busy honey bees ever sleep? Most foragers sleep at night from 5 to 8 hours after their hard day’s work and occasionally nap briefly on a flower during daylight....

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...