A bumble bee's nest will naturally die out but honey bees ... Mr Kelly, who has about 50 hives in Newcastle, County Down, quite literally uses a vacuum cleaner during the process.

A new study blames rising heat as a potential culprit for the decline in bumblebee populations worldwide. The heat is depleting their ability to construct liveable nests in which healthy larvae ...

Social bees, such as honeybees and bumblebees, often live in hives or nests, above or below the ground ... that will weave across the British landscape. If you find a bumblebee which appears to be ...

It is expandable with extra HexHives and a safety hinge prevents any bees from escaping inside. The Hive also features a cleaning tray and feeder system. BEEcosystem hopes to educate people about ...

A honeybee hive is far more than just a buzz of activity. In fact, the social organization inside a nest rivals that in the best-run corporations, with each bee and each cell possessing a rigidly ...

And social insect queens emerge from hibernation in search of a place to start their nests. Most people won’t be surprised that bumble bees and ground-nesting wasp colonies have queens.

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...