honey bee
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Scientists have spent years decoding the honey bee "waggle dance," a highly sophisticated form of communication.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
The western honey bee, Apis mellifera, stores large quantities of food in the form of bee bread, which is used as a main food source for the hive.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
From Québec to British Columbia, honey bee colonies were given the job of pollinating some of Canada's most valuable crops -- apples, canola oil and seed, highbush and lowbush blueberry, soybean, cranberry and corn.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024
They found that honey bee colonies that spend the winter outside in many areas of the Pacific Northwest would likely experience spring colony collapses in both the near- and long-term scenarios.
From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024
The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
