by Nicolas Geant | Dec 16, 2018 | News
What is a drone bee? A drone bee is a male honey bee. Unlike worker bees, which are female, drones do not collect nectar or pollen, produce wax, or perform most of the daily tasks inside the hive. Their primary biological role is reproduction: drones mate with virgin...
by Nicolas Geant | Dec 14, 2018 | Non classé
Bees use their sense of smell to communicate. They detect a lot of different smells, both inside and outside of the hive, to spot an enemy or locate flowers. If you look at a bee, the fist thing you notice is their always-moving antennas. It is their most essential...
by Nicolas Geant | Dec 13, 2018 | News
Bees need clean water, nectar but above all a rich and diverse pollen. In addition to a good diet, beekeepers can keep their hives healthy by having a young queen and regularly changing its frames. As for all living beings, healthy food equals healthy bees. The queen...
by Nicolas Geant | Dec 10, 2018 | News
Honey bees have a remarkable sense of direction. A foraging bee can leave its hive, travel considerable distances to find flowers, and then return to the same colony with impressive accuracy. Bees do not rely on a single navigation system. Instead, they combine...
by Nicolas Geant | Nov 11, 2018 | News
Thanks to taste receptors, bees can identify different types of sugar and their contents in digested substances. Their developped sense of taste helps them carefully select the plants and flower they forage from. Here are the answers to a few questions on the topic....
