When our bees arrived by mail, a small number of them had died en route. While transferring the colony of 10,000 into the new hive we ordered for them, the living and dead all went in at the same time ...

Honeybees live in extremely crowded conditions. Whether they are feral (wild) bees in a hollow tree or are managed in a couple of wooden boxes, they are likely to have a population of 50,000 bees in ...