In the early 1900s, Austrian scientist Karl von Frisch won the Nobel prize in biology for identifying the famous “waggle dance” of communication between honey bees and showing that honey bees can perceive ultraviolet light. Whereas it had generally been thought previously that honey bees (Apis mellifera) were more or […]
CARPENTER BEES FACTS & NATURAL HISTORY Carpenter bees are species of bee that fall under the genus Xylocopa. There are about 500 known species of carpenter bee in the world and they exist on every continent except for Antarctica. The name “carpenter bee” comes from their behavior of burrowing into […]
In 2015 Kevin became a beekeeper. He took five weeks of classes, built the foundation for his hives, and when the big day came he went to Beekind to pick up the 10,000 bees he had ordered. Our boys observed the bees sitting on our kitchen table buzzing intensely for […]
Insects pollinate almost a 1/3 of our food and provide this service for free. Then, why are they not factored into the GDP, an economic number giving an estimate of our countries total economic output every quarter? How much would it cost us if bees were to disappear, which is […]