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...

I don’t know about you, but as a kid, I always associated that lovely word, proboscis, with elephants…well, maybe later on with tapirs, aardvarks, echidnas, and other such exotic creatures I read...

Jeepers, Creepers! Where’d You Get those Peepers? Bees have amazing eyes--all FIVE of them! Two are big compound eyes, and the other three are small and simple. The trio of round,...