To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 ... while unfertilized eggs will become males. Maureen Dolan, NOVA Online's intern, worked with a bee researcher from the University ...

A honeybee hive is far more than just a buzz of activity. In fact, the social organization inside a nest rivals that in the best-run corporations, with each bee and each cell possessing a rigidly ...

which now has six hives for their staff. A bee hatches after egg, larva and pupa phases. The queen lays one egg per cell and after three days this hatches into a larva. After about six days the ...

it's pretty much a bee sanctuary. Once I get the new hive back to my house and get them settled in, I'll give them a day or two and I'll release the queen, and she will continue to lay eggs ...

The top cover is key to keeping the bees inside warm and alive; so please don’t move or remove it if you stumble across a ...

Fertilised eggs become workaholic females ... the simple answer is I do not know, it is up to the bees." During winter the hives are distributed on four or five farms and the bees are fed a ...

solitary bees don’t form colonies and live in hives, so this bee hotel is the perfect place for a female to lay her eggs. Once she does, she’ll leave some food behind and seal up the nest in ...