Category: bee behavior

Family： Fabaceae Genus： Medicago Species： M. sativa Common names： lucerne ZBAS 2 Alfalfa probably has enough nectar, only if honey… read more Summer flower 12: Alfalfa

Family： Fabaceae Genus： Trifolium Species： T. pratense Common names： red clover ZBAS 4 Years ago beekeeping friends (father and son)… read more Summer flower 11: Red clover

1. Video of a behavior I did with my cell phone: This is the second time I saw this. The… read more Beehavior 1: Colony wide Nasonov-pheromone releasing

Family  Asparagaceae Subfamily Scilloideae Genus Scilla Common name squill, scilla ZBAS*: 7 Scilla flowers is also an early spring flower,… read more Spring flower 3: Scilla

Download the Feeding Honey Bees PDF Zachary Huang Department of Entomology Michigan State University  A water feeder with twigs to… read more Feeding Honey Bees

At the Friday lab meeting, I was told that one colony has become all “laying workers” by a visiting scholar… read more False queen in a laying worker colony

Ok, I have seen bees foraging on catalpa flowers, many years ago. In fact here are some pictures I took,… read more Bees foraging on catalpa leaves, anyone?

I get asked by many as to why I constantly take photographs of honey bees on flowers. Don’t they all… read more Reasons for obsessively shooting bees