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 | 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...
by Ramesh Karki | May 3, 2026 | World Bee Journal
Bees don’t have eyelids, so it’s not that easy to tell whether bees are asleep or not. However, their antennae stop moving and they rest their heads on the floor, and in some cases, fall over sideways, so they do definitely sleep. Bees often hold each...
by Ramesh Karki | Apr 3, 2026 | World Bee Journal
2 APRIL 2026 The future of farming may depend not just on genetics or technology, but on helping plants remember how to survive. For more than 500 million years, plants have shaped life on Earth. They fill our atmosphere with oxygen, anchor our ecosystems, and feed...
by Ramesh Karki | Mar 29, 2026 | World Bee Journal
People often assume that the queen bee is the boss of a beehive, but it turns out that many of the decisions are actually made by worker bees. For example, when the queen lays eggs, she can decide the gender of each egg. If she lays an egg containing genetic material...
