Bumblebees are not solitary - they live in small colonies of at most a few hundred bees. In spring, the queen will emerge from...

How many volunteers does it take to check a log beehive? Well, you can make up your own punchline to that...

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Types of honeybee There are three types of honeybee in a hive. Most of them are sterile females, the ‘workers’. Worker bees do all the...

Everyone thought the British Black Bee had died out completely. Beekeepers replaced them with paler bees, the result of an extensive...

Female solitary bees make their nests in a variety of places, such as hollow plant stems or tunnels in the ground. About two-thirds of...

A beehive intended for honey production usually consists of a stack of stout wooden boxes, approximately 45cm square. The lowest box,...