by Ramesh Karki | Jul 3, 2026 | World Bee Journal
2 JULY 2026 Contrary to general belief, honeybees don’t make a queen bee by merely feeding royal jelly to an ordinary larva. The design of the larva’s cell plays a critical role in shaping the larva’s development into a queen bee. For generations, biology textbooks...
by Ramesh Karki | Jun 5, 2026 | World Bee Journal
4 JUNE 2026 Honey bees make honey from nectar and pollen as food and medicine for themselves, and to help the entire bee colony survive the long, cold winters when there are no flowers. Honey bees emerged as a species around 120 million years ago during an...
by Ramesh Karki | May 8, 2026 | World Bee Journal
7 MAY 2026 In dry, dusty, nutrient-poor ecosystems, the leaves of certain plants absorb nutrients from dust that lands on their surface, reports the New Phytologist. Plants cannot move, so we tend to think of plants extracting everything they need from the soil they...
by Ramesh Karki | Jul 24, 2026 | World Bee Journal
Hornets are typically at least 4 times the size of a honeybee and have a tough exoskeleton, which can’t be penetrated by the bee’s sting, so when it comes to a straight fight, there is only going to be one winner. Hornets will often hover outside a beehive and pick...
by Ramesh Karki | Jun 26, 2026 | World Bee Journal
There has been quite a bit of research on monitoring bee flight patterns, as this could help us learn more about potential negative impacts on bee activity, such as traffic or pesticide use. It might also help us learn more about how a bee is able to navigate, fly,...
by Ramesh Karki | May 31, 2026 | World Bee Journal
Bees have a fairly weak immune system, so they have to rely on behavioural changes to try to defeat viruses. This involves changes in social activity, so scientists decided to monitor the effect. First, they infected about 100 “volunteer” bees with the highly deadly...
