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Do bees beelieve in God?
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to ask, does God believe in bees? The answer, apparently, is a resounding yes! In fact, it is quite possible that both ambrosia and ‘nectar’, the two forms of sustenance consumed by the Greek gods, were in reality...

A drone’s life.
Most people could tell you that a drone is either a small unmanned military aircraft or a male honey bee, but few realise that the latter are in fact quite fascinating creatures. Drones are larger than worker bees (although smaller than queens) and more...

How long do honey bees live?
The answer to this question is that it depends upon the caste of the bee concerned, and also the time of year in which it hatches. There are three castes of honey bees – queens, drones and workers – and all progress through the same four stages of life...

‘Out of Africa.’
In the 1978 disaster-horror movie The Swarm killer bees managed to down helicopters, as well as destroying a military base, a nuclear plant and a township, before being eventually lured out to sea and apparently exterminated. Directed by none other than...