September 13, 2015 at 11:59 am
Picture of the Day: Home Sweet Home
Carpenter bees are large, solitary bees often mistaken for bumble bees. They do not eat wood and are valuable pollinators.
Carpenter bees are large, solitary bees often mistaken for bumble bees. They do not eat wood and are valuable pollinators.
In this perfectly timed photo we see an encounter between two fast flying creatures, a hummingbird and bee.
Photographer Anand Varma captured the incredible 21 day transformation from bee egg to larvae to pupae to adult, unveiling the breathtaking timelapse as part of a recent TED Talk. Varma raised bees in his backyard — in front of a camera — to get an up close view. The project, for National Geographic, gives…
Flow Hive is a revolutionary beehive invention, allowing you to harvest honey without opening the hive and with minimal disturbance to the bees. The ground-breaking project launched on Indiegogo earlier this year with a modest goal of $70,000 USD. The project became a worldwide sensation and Indiegogo’s most successful crowdfunding campaign in history, raising…
Amazing footage shows a bee caught in a spider’s web, seemingly doomed until another bee swoops in and stings the spider. These are bumblebees so they do not lose their stinger and die afterwards (that’s a honey bee). What’s unclear is if the second bee was actually coming to assist or merely happened to…
The importance of bees cannot be understated. In the US alone, the Department of Agriculture estimated that bees pollinate about 80% of flowering crops, constituting about 1/3 of everything Americans eat. Their ability to pollinate has a tremendous environmental and economic impact on the entire globe. And now their influence is spreading to the…
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