On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...
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Why Drunk Bees Aren’t Allowed Back in the Hive Until They Sober Up
Bees can get drunk from fermented nectar, and guard bees may eject intoxicated foragers to protect the hive from harm.
Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs to track when they go in and out of their hives. The work, a collaboration among entomologists ...
The Sunshine State’s warm winter temperatures keep the bees active, allowing them to continue to forage. So-called “migratory beekeepers” rely on this three-month sojourn to build up their colonies’ ...
Honey is the sweet, sticky, delicious condiment that’s loved across the world. In 2021, the global honey industry was valued at approximately $8 billion, per Statista. Bees work overtime to produce ...
From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...
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