The well-known words of Goldilocks—"Not too hot, not too cold. Just right!”—describe perfectly the way a bee hive must be maintained. The ideal temperature for brood-rearing is about 94ᵒF,...

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...