honey bee
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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
More research is needed to unravel how the stressors are interacting and impacting honey bee mortality and colony health going forward, says French.
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 researchers also simulated a potential mitigation, placing honey bee hive boxes in cold storage so the bees start to cluster earlier and save workers.
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
