If the queen can’t find a nest site and gather enough resources, or perishes before workers emerge, the colony will fail before it even gets started. Like butterflies, wasps and bees start life ...

Exposed bees become weak and disoriented, so they can’t find flowers or their nests, can’t fight off pathogens ... of western bumblebees and kill or subdue the host colony’s queen. The cuckoo queen ...

Horchoff’s goal wasn’t to exterminate the bees but to find the queen and safely remove the bee nest to a much better location. How long did it take the bees to make a hive this big and what ...

Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary ... the new workers take over the responsibility of foraging for supplies and building the nest. The queen is then resigned to laying eggs for ...