These nectars, and finally honey, tend to be much darker in color and have a rich flavor. Once the forager bee brings the nectar back to the hive the nectar will have been mixed with special enzymes ...

A version of this story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world’s largest bee may also be the planet’s most elusive. First discovered in 1859 by the ...

“Somewhere along the way, we lost a lot of that knowledge,” says Lee Chae, CTO of Brightseed and creator of Forager, which uses AI to help map the plant genome, which contains clues to the ...

Female worker bees progress from house bee to nurse bee to forager bee. One is specially fed and groomed to be a queen. Male bees, called drones, can't feed themselves. They mate with the queen ...

Known as a "waggle dance," this pattern of movements can be used by one forager bee to tell other bees where a food source is located. The direction of the movements corresponds to the food's ...

Tauney Stinson lives in Renfrew County, and says invasive plants are actually quite tasty. She's the owner of Forager Bee, which provides outdoor education and teaches people to forage for their own ...