Look closely at a colony building new comb and you may see bees hanging in living chains. Here is what festooning is, what the research says about it, and what a beekeeper sees at the hive.

Spring is when a honey bee colony’s quiet winter work finally becomes visible. Here is what the bees are doing, what is in flower, and what a beekeeper does across the UK and temperate North America.

A forager comes home, climbs the dark comb and dances, and other bees fly out to a place they have never seen. Here is what von Frisch found, what later scientists proved, and what you can see at the hive.