The bees store nectar in honeycomb cells made of wax. The honey is still a bit wet, so they fan it with their wings to make it dry out and become more sticky Working bee on honeycomb. Closeup of bee ...

Sweet structure For thousands of years, thinkers have marvelled at the feat of engineering that is the honeycomb. Each waxy cell is a perfect hexagon, its six wafer-thin sides providing not only ...

Abstract: Bee colony has to be at optimum health in order to produce optimum production of honey or to act as pollination agents for crop plantations. Current methods in the evaluation of bee colony ...

Mathematically speaking, the honeycombs grow like crystals. Tim Heard via Royal Society Publishing The same mathematical model that explains how crystals grow can also explain how tropical stingless ...

Ecologists from the University of Wurzburg have developed improved breeding methods to aid research into risks to bees. They detailed the methods in a study released in Methods in Ecology and ...

World Bee Day is the perfect occasion to celebrate the contributions of bees to our environment and everyday lives. Bees play an important role in pollination, supporting the growth of fruits, ...

Francisco López Jiménez is taking on an unusual research subject for an assistant professor in aerospace -- honeycombs. A faculty member in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering ...