They carpet a crescent-shaped hive stretching almost six feet below a granite overhang. The bees are guarding gallons of a sticky, reddish fluid known as mad honey, which, thanks to its ...

Peter Tyson is Online Producer of NOVA. Chief sources The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies,by Thomas D. Seeley (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press ...

To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single collecting trip, a worker will visit between 50 and 100 flowers. She will return to the hive ...