• What is bee-bread?
  Bee-bread is the mixture of honey and pollen that bees use as food, ...

• How do bees become queens?
  The job that a bee does in the hive depends on what it eats. A queen ...

• How many flowers a day does a bee visit?
  A honeybee makes about 10 trips from the hive, each day, looking for ...

• Why are bees good dancers?
  When a bee returns from a successful trip to find pollen, it "dances" ...

• How long have people kept bees?
  People have made use of bees for a very long time. Beehives, and ...

• Why are bees hairy?
  Some bumblebees are quite good at keeping themselves warm, when the ...

• Where is a bee’s shopping basket?
  Many bees have a special brush of hairs on each back leg, that they ...

• Are wasps any use?
  Many people think that the yellow and black striped wasps are our ...

• What sort of home does a wasp have?
  A wasp's nest is made of tough paper, known as carton. The wasps tear ...

• How many kinds of wasp are there?
  There are a surprising number of different kinds of wasp, more than ...