Northern giant hornets pose significant threats to pollinators and native insects. They can wipe out a honey bee hive in as little as 90 minutes, decapitating the bees and then defending the hive ...

They carpet a crescent-shaped hive stretching almost six feet below a granite overhang. The bees are guarding gallons of a sticky, reddish fluid known as mad honey ... are of the bee spirits.

When winter comes, honeybees form a ball deep in their hive to regulate the hive temperature. This means they stay close ...

A few dozen giant hornets can slaughter a hive of 30,000 honeybees in a few hours ... People who are allergic to bee venom are at risk of developing life-threatening anaphylactic shock when ...

Today the humble honey bee provides us with a significant proportion ... in our polish and the honey on our morning toast. With one hive capable of producing more than 50kg of honey in a good ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...

He said they arrive usually around January-February and start moving further south from July onwards. Bees in Sigiriya are a species known as Rock Bees or Giant Honey Bee scientifically categorized as ...

Vermont native bees are a very different creature than the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and, some biologists point out, ...