In this crazy world of ours, I’m always surp...  ...ne another. When I recently learned that beetles, bees and beets have more in common than just a few let...  ...beetle spreads its larvae with the help of digger bees (pictured above) in what is called a honeytrap. T...  ...e inside of the hive where they...

Traditional folklore says that when a beekeeper di...  ...nal folklore says that when a beekeeper dies, the bees must be told of the death promptly, or else they...  ...ry, but the essence remains the same – tell the Bees , and quickly. In England circa 1840, a woman inqu...  ...y. In England circa 1840, a wom...

The Birds and the Bees T-Shirt by Mike Jacobsen - $14.95Birds do it, bees do it ... but did they ever do it together? From...  ...cobsen of See Mike Draw, here's The Birds and the Bees T-Shirt over at the NeatoShop: LinkMore T-shirts...

Way back in 2007, we posted an item about how cell...  ...s each day. After three months, they found the bees stopped producing honey, egg production by the qu...  ...that will be lost if populations plummet further. Bees are estimated to pollinate 90 commercial crops wo...

Dutch designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny made...  ...y made a sculpture of Jesus that was completed by bees . He erected a sealed glass container with his mo...  ...his mold inside. Libertiny then released 40,000 bees who worked on the honeycombed surface of the mold...  ...ld: over the course of the fair,...

Also nicotine!  A study conducted at the Universi...  ...onducted at the University of Haifa revealed that bees prefer nectar containing those psychoactive subst...  ...illigrams per liter... The results showed that bees clearly prefer nectar containing nicotine and caf...  ...levels of nicotine versus “cl...

A rare species of bee uses flower petals to make a...  ...nests and line them food for the developing baby bees . To begin construction, she bites the petals off...

(YouTube Link) A few years ago, Alex ran a po...  ...ere as 30 hornets lay waste to a colony of 30,000 bees . via Digg

Photo: Inscentinel For a few years, a British c...  ...honeybees for security and sanitation purposes. Bees are trained to respond to certain smells and then...  ...ample. From the company website: Our "sniffer bees " are honeybees trained to recognise a specific od...  ...t consciously controlled by the...

Keeping bees is illegal in New York City. That doesn't mean th...  ...e no beekeepers in the city; they just keep their bees hidden on rooftops. Now a resolution to legalize...  ...ds they got two boxes; one with about 20,000 live bees , and another smaller one with the queen be...