Apis andreniformis is a small honey bee of tropical Asia that builds a single comb in the open, hung from a branch. Here is what it is, where it lives and how it differs from the bee most of us keep.

Apis nigrocincta is a cavity-nesting honey bee of Sulawesi and a few nearby islands, close kin to the Asian honey bee. Here is what is known about it, and where the research runs thin.

The bee gum was a length of hollow tree trunk stood on end and given to a swarm. Here is what is known about who used it, how it worked, and what it could not do.

Basswood, or American linden, flowers for only a short spell in early summer, yet beekeepers have long watched for it. Here is where it grows, what it offers bees, and why we drew it.

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.