Peter Tyson is Online Producer of NOVA. Chief sources The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies,by Thomas D. Seeley (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Flow Hive is a beehive with a special design which gives you honey on tap. It works using frames with partly formed honeycomb cells which then split into channels ...

With one hive capable of producing more than ... what would we do without them? An illustration of what all honey bees, and a colony of honey bees, do for us in the UK each year.

Washington State University entomologists announced this week that commercial honey bee colony losses are projected to reach ...

They carpet a crescent-shaped hive stretching almost six feet below a granite overhang. The bees are guarding gallons of a sticky, reddish fluid known as mad honey, which, thanks to its ...

“She did a beautiful job of depicting the seasons when the honey is harvested,” comments Messias. Other illustrations and designs ... represents the waggle dance bees do to tell the rest of the hive ...