MARCUS AURELIUS

Using their wings, bees can fan hot air out of the hive to cool an area or vibrate their flight muscles to heat it. 

Scientists have observed Japanese honeybees create a giant ball around the hive-invading, bee-eating Asian giant hornets to use the same hive-heating techniques to

Against every choice of destruction, there is always the choice of creation.

This is the message of Poet Audre Lorde, as she draws on bees to describe the alternative to destruction. Her poem describes young boys throwing stones at swarming bees. A boy gets stung by a bee, and conseque...

• Ancient writing took the leap from drawing a picture as a picture (a logogram) to using it to depict a sound (or phonogram). A "bee" can be used for the sound "be", and when used together with a drawing of a "leaf", they produce the meaning "be-lief."