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Two and a half million motivational posters bearing the words Keep Calm and Carry On were printed for distribution in mid-1939. In the end, few were ever displayed, and they were forgotten until being rediscovered in a bookshop in Northumberland, in 2000 {{1}}.
The rest, as they say, is history. The wording has become internationally recognised. It is used as a...
If you go to the apiary in the early afternoon on a lovely day in late May you'll often find the air filled with a swirling mass of bees.
Try following the flight of an individual bee — not always easy — and you'll see she's flying in uneven, ever-widening, spirals as she gains altitude. You'll eventually lose sight of her amongst the hundreds of other bees do...
Like many beekeepers, I'm often thinking about my bees at any time of the day or night. But like most beekeepers, I do my beekeeping during the day.
But not just any time during the day.
Most of my beekeeping is done between late morning and mid/late afternoon.
That's a 6-hour window, or just 25% of the day. During the rest of the time, the bees loo...
How many bees does it take to rear a queen?
Using nano-colonies, scientists have shown that as few as 100 bees can rear a new queen (Lamas et al., 2025). That's right, 100 nurse bees in a perforated plastic cup in an incubator, provided with a 12-hour-old queen cell (i.e., one that's just been started), will rear the queen to emergence. There'...