Today honeybees can be found all over the world. Bees often shield themselves from rain, which can chill their flight muscles to the point that they cannot fly. Bees are not fast fliers ...

When bumblebees visit, they vibrate their wing muscles at just the right pitch, causing the chamber to resonate and spray pollen out onto their fuzzy bodies. Bees can’t see red, but they do see ...

They heat their nest in a similar way by twitching their flight muscles. • Bumblebees host many different parasites whose larvae grow inside their living bodies. They most commonly host flies, ...