The world of bees
Bees
How a colony lives, how a bee is born, which strains to choose, and thousands of years of shared history.
Contents
inside the hive
All articles
- History and culture
History of beekeeping in America: from Jamestown to Langstroth and the almond orchards
History of beekeeping in the US: honey bees reach Virginia in 1622, Langstroth's 1852 hive, Italian bees, the 1922 import ban, varroa and almond pollination.
- Bee strains
Honey bee breeds in the US: Italian, Carniolan, Russian, VSH and Africanized bees compared
Types of honey bees in the US compared: Italian, Carniolan, Russian, Buckfast, mite-resistant VSH, Pol-line and mite-biter stock, Africanized bees and imports.
- The colony
The honey bee colony: queen, workers and drones, jobs by age, brood timing and how a hive organizes itself
How a honey bee colony works: queen, workers and drones, worker jobs by age, brood timing, winter bees and what US beekeepers should read on a Langstroth frame.
- Bee biology
Honey bee life cycle: egg, larva, pupa, development days for queens, workers and drones, and how long bees live
The honey bee life cycle day by day: egg, larva, pupa, 16, 21 or 24 days by caste, summer and winter lifespans, and what it means in a Langstroth hive.
- The colony
Queen bee: what she does, how she mates, how long she lives, and how to find and replace her
The honey bee queen explained for US beekeepers: her role, queen cells, mating, egg laying, lifespan, the 2026 marking color, requeening and queenless hives.
Switch world
Other worlds
