Isaac Watts, “How Doth the Little Busy Bee” or “Against Idleness and Mischief ” (1715)
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! How skilfully she builds her […]
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How to get rid of carpenter bees
Here’s how to get rid of carpenter bees. Entomolygists recommend applying an insecticidal dust directly into the nest opening. The best way to do […]
Types of Bees: Honey Bees: Queen Bee
The Queen bee is the mother or sister of all the bees in a hive. A queen bee is born when worker bees feed a bee larva royal […]
Types of Bees: The Zombee
There are many types of bees found in nature, but perhaps none are as downright bizarre and terrifying as the zombee. That’s right, as if killer bees […]
William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1890)
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will […]
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 […]
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 […]