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 ...

If you watched the NOVA program "Tales From the Hive ... bees didn't volunteer for this procedure, and the hardest part was to avoid getting stung. Before the flight, the bee got a sip of honey ...

There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in ...

Audubon’s demonstration Honey Bee hive on the second floor of the Nature Center provides a glimpse into the life of this social insect. At first the hive looks like chaos. On anything but a cold day, ...

Honey bees rely heavily on flower patterns when searching for food, a new study has found. The research has revealed honeybees can distinguish between different flowers by using colours and patterns.

And bees are important for many more reasons than just food. Their responsible for the wax in our polish and the honey on our morning toast. With one hive capable of producing more than 50kg of ...

Since bees gather the honey from within only a few miles of their hives, beekeepers are able to influence where and upon what the bees feed and the final style and flavour the honey will have.

Bees do not make honey for human consumption. They make and store it so they’ll have something to eat when there aren’t many flowers in bloom. It’s the equivalent of canning fresh vegetables ...

When stored properly, honey can last for a ... Afterward, the bees will regurgitate the sweet liquid and leave it for other bees in the hive. In the bees' stomachs, glucose oxidase breaks down ...

says it is distressing how many American honey bee colonies, or hives as they are otherwise known, die off every year. Hit by a deadly parasitic mite, pesticides and climate change, a survey ...

“Marsha Knight … claims that those honey bees or other honey bees have ... MacDonald relocated the bees to a beehive box outside the farmhouse, where they’re getting adjusted to their ...