When I was a boy my mother would buy enough cheap cards with clumsy drawings of butterflies and bunnies and honeybees for me to give one to every kid in my class, about 20 or so.

Let the representatives of a strong sex fly to you, as bees to honey.

A UK study has shown that other aspectsof bees' behaviour may matter more than the classic bee colour to keeppredators away.

A honeybee may be limited by having comparatively few neurons, but it surely seems to squeeze everything it can out of them.

Like honeybees and ancient mariners, they can navigate by the sun, so they know the general direction in which to travel.

For scientists have discovered that old bees have trouble finding their way to new hives as their learning behaviour becomes increasingly inflexible.

But before you go putting your hand into a beehive, remember this: The hive is the center of the bees’world.

The Greeks and Romans were famous beekeepers who harvested respectable yields of honey from homemade hives, yet these ancients got almost every fact about bees wrong.

Immediately a thousand bees flew out with a thousand stingers.

"All our bees were individuallynumbered with tags on the back of the thorax, so that we could keep track ofeach individual that left and entered the nest, " said the researcher.

Reports of declining populations of bees and other flower-visiting creatures have raised concerns about pollination levels.

A single hornet can kill 40 bees in a minute.

But what we don't know is why they become susceptible to this host of pathogens, viruses and fungus.

You’re not being tougher than her by charismatically surviving a bee sting; you’re just not feeling it at her intensity.

His previous research has shown honeybees can fly up to nine miles to patches of heather.

Honeybees are frequently used as a neurobiological model for learning—they can be trained, using positive or negative reinforcement, to retain information.

Each scout inspects the site she navigated to and if she agrees that is a desirable dwelling place, she too performs a waggle dance when she returns to the swarm.

But they’re held together tenuously, only by our constant activity, busy bees maintaining the cells of our hive.

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Expecting the sugar water to follow, each trained bee extends its proboscis, which starts waving in the air, searching for nectar.