“Because of the large size of honey bee colonies and the long activity period of the colony, studying foraging behavior through direct observations is generally a time-consuming endeavo ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

A bee dancing to share foraging locations with hive mates. Credit: Margaret Couvillon for Virginia Tech. Honeybees have had millions of years to perfect the waggle dance, so it may be surprising ...

Show kids the importance of bee habitats like flower patches. Help provide a safe place for the buzzers—which pollinate an estimated one-third of the food we eat—by building a bee hotel near ...

Worldwide, honey bees provide an annual honey crop of approximately one billion kilograms Each honey bee will produce about ... honey on your toast 10 million foraging trips go into making one ...

If every bee communicated the same ... disease resistance, growth, and foraging," said Couvillon. "Now we have also seen that diverse communication enhances recruitment success." ...