Two honeybees work together to lift the top off a bottle of Fanta
Footage captured in São Paulo, Brazil, on May 17 shows the two honeybees position themselves on either side of the Fanta bottle and lift the top off within seconds.
Footage captured in São Paulo, Brazil, on May 17 shows the two honeybees position themselves on either side of the Fanta bottle and lift the top off within seconds.
Footage captured in São Paulo, Brazil, on May 17 shows the two honeybees position themselves on either side of the Fanta bottle and lift the top off within seconds.
Groomer honeybees can boost a colony’s immunity by clearing deadly parasites off their nestmates using their mandibles, a study has found. For a short period of their lives, some worker bees take on the role of removing debris including dangerous pests from other members of the colony. These bees – dubbed allogroomers – develop a … Read more
There is a war going on in nature – murderous Asian hornets are invading honeybee hives, and are decapitating the insects and feeding the bodies to their young. However, Japanese honeybees have developed a bizarre counter attack that cooks the predators to death. More than 500 workers bees swarm around the hornets, trapping them in … Read more
Honey bees in the UK are increasingly suffering at the hands of a deadly viral disease that is sweeping England and Wales, according to a new study. British scientists found colonies of the honey bee that are infected with ‘chronic bee paralysis’ rose nearly 200-fold between 2007 and 2017. Whole colonies are frequently lost to … Read more