Laying Worker Colony A phenomenon that is seen most often in the early spring is that of a “laying worker colony.” In this case, an older queen has become nonfunctional in her...
Category: Honey Bees
How Could This Bee How can honeybees communicate the locations of new food sources? Austrian biologist, Karl Von Frisch, devised an experiment to find out! By pairing the direction of the sun...
Fat bodies are not the same as "body fat." They are organs that contain a conglomeration of protein and fat and act similarly to the liver in mammals. They perform many...
BeeKeepers~ Here is a video from Cal Lomsdalen (Tarboohoneybees) of a talk given by Gerry Rozema in BC on splitting hives. The video, which talks extensively about the honey flows in...