Types of Bees: Bumble Bee Gallery
These amazing high resolution images of bumble bees were taken by Sam Droege for the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab. Even more incredible images […]
Month: July 2014
Do carpenter bees sting?
Do carpenter bees sting? Short answer: yes. Longer answer: unless you’re Winny the Pooh, and you stick your fingers in a bee nest looking for honey, […]
Types of Bees: Honey Bees: Drone Bees
Drones are male honey bees. Of the three basic types of bees (queen bee, worker bee, drone bee), only drones are male and drones are […]
“Bee City” Presents a Look into a Beehive
This 1951 film offers a delightfully narrated glimpse into the buzzing metropolis of a beehive and the roles the different types of bees play to […]
Walt Whitman, “Bumble-Bees” (1892)
MAY-MONTH—month of swarming, singing, mating birds—the bumble-bee month—month of the flowering lilac—(and then my own birth-month.) As I jot this paragraph, I am out just […]
Do Bumble Bees Sting?
Do bumble bees sting? Yes. And that’s not the worst part! Like other types of bees, the queen and the worker bumble bee can sting, but unlike […]
E.B. White, “Song of the Queen Bee” (1945)
“The breeding of the bee,” says a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin on artificial insemination, “has always been handicapped by the fact that the […]
Types of Bees: The Bumble Bee
In North America, there are about 50 different species of bumble bees. They are identifiable by their large, furry bodies that are mostly black […]
The Beehive and the Building or Apiary Architecture
Architects have long been fascinated with the bee and the beehive. According to architectural historian Juan Antonio Ramirez architects as different as Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) drew […]
Types of Bees: “Killer Bees ” or Africanized Honey Bees
Of the many types of bees, perhaps the most feared is the “Killer Bee.” Killer bees, more formally known as the Africanized honey bee, are […]