A honey bee colony runs like a perfectly organised society, with the queen at its heart, laying eggs and producing pheromones that keep order. Yet sometimes, the workers take a shocking step and ...
Queen bee standing on a supersedure cell (peanut-shaped structure, center). Within the supersedure cell is a new queen bee that the workers have reared as a replacement. It sounds like the plot of a ...
Alison McAfee receives funding from Project Apis m. She is affiliated with the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists and the British Columbia Honey Producers' Association. University of ...