Fresh batch: "The honeycomb we like to eat is typically newly made, and has only ever been used to store honey," says Hilary Kearney, beekeeper, founder of Girl Next Door Honey, a bee-centric ...

We are using 3D printing to build foundation panels for the comb, in which we carefully introduce controlled constraints. We track how the bees progress in building the comb and measure how they alter ...

A study explores comb-building behavior in honeybees. ... The authors report that some comb-building challenges were exceptionally difficult for bees, such as merging combs with unaligned cells.

The secret life of the honey bee is about to be revealed after an international consortium of scientists sequenced the full genetic code of the honey bee's genome, with the results published ...