Grow native plants and avoid insecticides ... so the queen remains the mother and star of the hive. On any given day, a queen bee is able to lay up to 2,000 eggs. Should you provide drinking ...

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 ... to the Americas. Native Americans referred ...

A Bombus affinis queen bumblebee found in Racine ... are resource-guarding honey or flowers. Because native bees don’t really have a hive to protect and they also don’t resource guard ...

Hives have a single queen and each individual has a specific task. Solitary bees build their own nest, and while there may be aggregations of individual nests (neighbors if you will), solitary bees ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...

Early May had North Hill abuzz, as a swarm with at least a few hundred to thousand bees searched for a place to call home.

Most important is to ensure there is a queen and that she is laying eggs, he said, and that there is enough space in the hive ... also use native plants on their properties. “More bees means ...