Having discovered a fondness for insects while pursuing her degree in Biology, Randi Jones was quite bugged to know that people usually dismissed these little creatures as “creepy-crawlies”.
The first stage a bee goes through after hatching from the egg and before becoming an adult is the larval stage. The bee larvae stage is an important part of bee development. The stages of development, from egg to bee, are identified by differences in body composition, dietary choices, and social behavior. Did you know…
Killer bees are definitely one of the most feared bees and certainly one bee that has gained a lot of attention in recent years. Killer bees, also known as Africanized bees are definitely different than any bee that you have ever seen. Of course, the movie ‘The Swarm’ did nothing but make killer bees that…
The adult female or the queen bee is the center of the beehive or the honey- bee colony. She is the mother of most of the bees, residing within the colony and almost everything happening in the colony is responsible to the queen. If the queens of a bee colony, borne out of the larvae,…
In this article, we will explore some bee facts that you may not have known before. The honey bee tends to be non-aggressive unless bothered. The honey bee is the only bee species that dies after stinging someone. The honey bee has a barbed stinger which actually pulls away from their stomach along with a…
Since 2006, some beekeepers have had hive populations drop, a lot. Losses were reported at any where from 30 – 90 % of worker bee population across the United States and in some parts of Europe even though there was a live and active Queen, honey in the hive and immature bees present. This condition…
Carpenter bees, also dubbed the ‘wood boring bee’ got their name from their ability to drill through wood and nest inside the hole that they drilled. These bees are honestly some of the most amazing bees in the world due to the fact that their hole is almost always nearly perfectly the same size: half…