Drone Retirement Home — Short-Term Comfort Care
A warm-hearted guide to identifying male honey bees and offering brief shelter and careful feeding to an evicted autumn drone. These are short-term comfort-care suggestions,…
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Bee Winter Behavior and Roles
Explore winter clustering, heat production, colony roles and the importance of stored food.
Winter Bees: How They Survive and Why They Live So Long
Winter bee series, part 1: longevity, colony roles, clustering, and the spring handoff.
How Honey Bees Make Beeswax
Wax production, comb building, and the many jobs beeswax performs in a colony.
Meet the Winter Bees
The seasonal changes that help winter workers carry a colony into spring.
The Amazing Honey Bee Flight Engine
How honey bee flight muscles support flight, communication, and winter heating.
How Do Bees Turn Nectar Into Honey?
Follow the transformation from collected nectar to ripened honey inside the colony.
Inside the Honey Bee Colony
Meet the queen, workers and drones and explore how their roles support colony life.