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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]