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Swarming is a honey bee colony's natural means of reproduction, where a single colony splits into two or more distinct colonies. Learn about the preparation, process, and nest site selection of swarming, as well as the methods to control it.
The waggle dance is a figure-eight dance of the honey bee that conveys information about the direction and distance of a resource to other bees. Learn how the dance is performed, decoded, and influenced by various factors such as sun angle, distance, excitement, and predators.
The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide. Learn about its origin, distribution, subspecies, life cycle, and conservation status on Wikipedia.
Learn how the artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) simulates the foraging behavior of honey bees to solve optimization problems. ABC consists of three types of bees: employed, onlooker and scout, and uses a probabilistic selection mechanism based on nectar amounts.
Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, especially honey bees, by gathering and refining the sugary secretions of plants or other insects. Bees produce honey to nourish themselves and their colonies, and store it in honeycomb cells or other structures.
Learn how honey bees develop from eggs to adults in a social colony, and how they perform different roles depending on their sex and age. See the stages, durations, and weights of honey bee development, and the sources of food and information.
Learn about the various games created by users on the online video game platform Roblox, ranging from popular titles like Adopt Me! and Doors to licensed games like Harry Potter and Jailbreak. Find out their features, genres, history, awards and more.
Learn about the diversity, evolution, biology, ecology and human relationship of bees, the flying insects that pollinate flowers and produce honey. Find out how bees are classified, how they feed, how they communicate, how they live in colonies or solitarily, and how they are threatened by extinction.