The film explores the life and social structure of honeybees, highlighting their importance as pollinators and their complex ...

While honey producers and beekeepers have ways to treat varroa-infested hives, the bees themselves also have a few tricks up their sleeve.

One queen bee commands a hive of male drone bees and sterile female worker bees who go on missions to gather nectar and water, build and repair the hive, tend to the queen and her eggs ...

While body odour and even tears may influence behaviour, love is far more complex than a whiff of sweat or a drops of tears ...

The mating between honey bees includes three different bee categories: queen bee, drones and workers [2,3,10]. Queen bee is the only egg-laying female who is the mother of all the members of the ...

Males in communal settings mate with the queen bee to produce a brood. This is their only job. Once this is done, they either die or are forced out of the colony. Female drones, or worker bees, do the ...

Honey bee and bumble ... and females (drones and queens) are produced. After mating, fertilized females move to hibernation sites underground or possibly in the shelter of loose bark to lie dormant ...

Credit: Margarita López-Uribe, Robyn Underwood, Julio Urbina, Diego Penaloza-Aponte and team/Penn State Like workers at a high-security ... as well as other types of honey bees, such as drone bees or ...

Bees have two large compound eyes on the sides of their head and three small simple eyes on top of their head. This helps them see in different directions and detect light changes quickly. Bees flap ...