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Help Us Solve One of Nature’s Greatest Puzzles

Newly emerged virgin honey bee queens become inseminated in flight by multiple male honey bees (drones) in elevated regions outdoors called Drone Congregation Areas (DCAs).  These DCAs are areas five to 60 meters above ground and 30 to 200 meters in… Continue Reading →

If I could choose anyone in the world to speak at my bee club…

…it would be Professor Mandyam Srinivasan. Granted, I may be a little unique there but I have enjoyed many of his papers on honey bee neurophysiology. He is Professor of Visual Neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute in Australia. His… Continue Reading →

High speed cameras study imprecise bee flight

Drones Make Love Not War

I have two hobbies: beekeeping and building/flying multirotors or drones.  There is rarely any overlap between the two but recently I have noticed a spate of YouTube videos with titles such as (click on the links!): Bees Attack Quadcopter Blades… Continue Reading →

Ulster Observation Hive Project

This is a posting stub where readers can comment on the Ulster Observation Hive.

Entomologist: Meet Etymologist

I am pleased to report that ‘beehacker’ has been entered into the lexicon of popular culture. WordSpy, “the word lover’s guide to new words”, has identified an emerging new meme: beehacker. A beehacker has been defined as n. A beekeeper… Continue Reading →

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