Sometimes I think that I have my errands mapped ou...  ...ust the beginning of the superpowers exhibited by bees . The fact that they pollinate crops and make hone...  ...t they pollinate crops and make honey already has bees at the top of the "most admired insects" list, bu...  ..."most admired insects" list, b...

We are most likely to notice the honeybee and the...  ...d Monitoring program about the amazing variety of bees , with plenty of pictures. Link -via Not Exactly R...

Honeybees are pretty talented, but they didn't com...  ...esign of the honeycomb. That's just physics. What bees do is build cells in a cylindrical shape and stac...  ...cian Pappus of Alexandria, who contended that the bees had “a certain geometrical forethought&rdqu...  ...exagons, aided by the slight wa...

We have only a few days to wait until the glorious return of the Twinkie! That's just enough time to do the prep work to duplicate Beth Klosterboer's amazing Snack Cake Stingers. You'll need modeling chocolate, food colo...

Pay attention; this one is complicated. Two guys i...  ...all. The wall collapsed, and thousands of enraged bees swarmed from their hive behind the wall and into...  ...ile pulling off their clothing, likely due to the bees . Sigrist's husband told the police the cost of th...

In Croatia, unexploded mines dot the landscape and...  ...University outlined the idea for the experiment: Bees have a perfect sense of smell that can quickly de...  ...nt of TNT.“Our basic conclusion is that the bees can clearly detect this target, and we are very s...  ...TNT particles in them. The metho...

There aren't enough honeybees in the wild to polli...  ...ps in as a migratory beekeeper. He sends hives of bees to agricultural areas that need them during each...  ...at a time, for a total load of over three million bees !It’s different at different times of year....  ...ad them.Read more about the intr...

Honeybees in a hive have fairly identical genes. T...  ...t switch genes on or off chemically, differ among bees that do different jobs. And bees can change those chemical switches themselves, wh...  ...needed. Under normal circumstances, young worker bees are nurses in the hiv...

[youtube BZZMrtC2wGs] (YouTube link)Fire ants are the geeks of the insect world. They seek out technology, particularly electric gadgets. And they have super powers, such as the ability to survive being cooked in a micro...

Would you like to encourage wild, solitary bees to live near your home? You can build a bee hotel...  ...uild a bee hotel that provides the amenities that bees on the go are looking for. Bundle together shoots...