This is how bees build their hive. They link their legs together and they make a little living chain of bees. These chains of bees are called ‘festoons’. And when bees are festooning like this, they’re using their little bee bodies to warm up the space around them so that it’s easier for them to build and repair the beeswax comb of their hive. It also makes it easier for me to scoop them up with my hands. And seeing the way that bees work together for the collective good of the colony, makes eve

Worker bees are female! 🐝♀️ In a healthy colony with a strong queen, the queen is responsible for laying all the eggs. She is able to lay both fertilised and unfertilised eggs, and her special pheromone stops the worker bees from developing the ability to lay eggs. Fertilised eggs ➡️ worker bees and queen bees Unfertilised eggs ➡️ drones (make bees) However, if the queen dies and the workers are unable to raise a new queen in time, the colony starts to fail gradually. Without a fertile laying q