by Ramesh Karki | Jan 27, 2026 | World Bee Journal
In a honey bee hive, the worker bees are all female, and as the name suggests, they do pretty much all the work, including fetching food, feeding the queen, cleaning up, defending the hive etc. But why is this the case? When a new queen is chosen, she goes on a quest...
by Ramesh Karki | Jan 6, 2026 | World Bee Journal
8 JANUARY 2026 Climate change is playing an increasingly important role in the decline of biodiversity. It is causing the loss of local species, increasing diseases, and driving mass mortality of plants and animals, including pollinators. The consequences of climate...
by Ramesh Karki | Dec 29, 2025 | World Bee Journal
Scientists already know that bees can do simple addition and subtraction, but a team in Australia came up with a new experiment to test a bee’s ability to follow mathematical sequences. They put a jar of concentrated sugar syrup 100 meters from a hive, and then each...
by Ramesh Karki | Dec 7, 2025 | World Bee Journal
4 DECEMBER 2025 In the 2000s, beekeepers with managed hives reported alarming losses in their hives and these incidents led to widespread concern that all honeybees were in decline. Scientists have since worked hard to reduce colony mortality, studying domesticated,...
by Ramesh Karki | Dec 1, 2025 | World Bee Journal
Scientists know that bees experience basic emotions like joy and fear, but what about more complex feelings like anxiety or depression? A group of scientists decided to try to find out. First they trained bees to understand the difference between 2 smells. With the...
