A bee hotel or bee house is a wooden structure with holes that provide places for solitary bees to nest, breed and stay safe from threats. You can place a bee hotel in your garden as a way to help out bees in your area. Bee hotels won’t be enough […]
5 Best Bee Hotels For Your Garden (In 2022)
If you’ve been stung by a honey bee before, you’ve probably wondered why it happened. Did you get stung for a particular purpose, or was it an unprovoked attack? The truth is there was definitely a reason, even if you didn’t realize it at the time. Bees don’t sting people
Drones (male honey bees) and workers (female honey bees) are the most common castes inside a beehive. The only other type of bee inside the hive is the queen (and there is only one of her). Drones and workers may look similar at first glance, but they have a number
Drones vs. Worker Bees: What’s The Difference?
Most people know the queen is the most important honey bee inside the hive. She’s responsible for laying eggs and ensuring the population of the colony continues to grow. But is the queen bee the ruler of the hive? Do honey bees have a leader at all? No – honey
Bees are fantastic flyers. They travel long distances to search for nectar and pollen, collect food and carry it back to the hive. Then, the next day, they do it all again. But how high off the ground can they fly? Is there an altitude at which their wings will
A new queen honeybee is born from an egg laid by an existing queen. The egg hatches into a larva, which is then fed a special diet by nurse bees in order to become sexually mature. Thirteen days after the egg hatches into a larva, a new queen bee emerges.
