A new study examines how bees adapt to build honeycombs on top of various 3D-printed foundations. Golnar Gharooni-Fard Honeycombs are marvels of engineering—the bees that create them will work ...
If the foundation cells were too large, the bees built their honeycombs with slanted borders, effectively shrinking the opening of each cell while preserving depth for storage. And if the foundation ...
On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...
Connal McLean is affiliated with The Moths and Butterflies of New Zealand Trust and The Entomological Society of New Zealand. Jennifer Jandt does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...
There’s more than one way to build a honeybee hive, depending on the needs of the bees, according to a study published August 26 th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Golnar Gharooni-Fard of ...
From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...
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