This is not the plot of a new Game of Thrones spinoff, but a common and violent reality in honey bee colonies. As with any ...
When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...
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When loyalty fades: Inside the secret uprisings against honey bee queens
The research team found that common viruses can damage a queen’s ovaries, reducing both her egg-laying rate and the ...
A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such ...
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 32, No. 3 (1993), pp. 191-198 (8 pages) The study investigates whether worker policing via the selective removal of worker-laid male eggs occurs in normal ...
There is a growing concern about a massive honey bee die-off in the United States, and the sting might not spare Southwest Florida. The Beekeepers Association of Southwest Florida is actively working ...
In his heavy-duty cotton jacket and attached head mask under the sweltering September sun, East Hill Honey owner and Pensacola beekeeper Tommy Van Horn spent his afternoon supplementing the diets of ...
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