Oliver Taylor's beehive is 3D-printed and expandable. While many 13-year-old boys might spend their summers playing video games or attending camp, Oliver Taylor decided to build a custom-made, ...

Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

Hexagons are mutually associated with bees and wasps, as both insect species build their nests using this humble six-sided shape. Anyone who stumbles upon a bee or wasp nest in nature will be greeted ...

Kirk Anderson is a beekeeper living in Los Angeles. He practices "backwards beekeeping," which means that he doesn't use a "foundation" in his hives. Traditional beekeeping uses plastic or beeswax ...

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 ...