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...

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...