For decades, women in positions of authority have been labelled ‘queen bees’ for purportedly undermining their female colleagues. Courtney Goldsmith digs deeper into the stereotype and the culture ...

There is a significant proportion of bees that are incapable of stinging. Only the female worker bees and the queen bee can sting. The drones (males) cannot. The same is true for wasps. Mostly, if you ...

Bee's venom sac. Honey bee stings a man's arm. When the sting is over, the honeybee leaves the venom sac, notices it's still injecting the venom on its own by the pressure of the surrounding muscles ...

Yellow jackets, paper wasps and bumble bees can sting more than once because they can pull out their stinger without injuring ... temperatures arrive (usually in the mid to upper 20°s F), the cold ...

Ph. D. students Sanam (Uma Paranjpe) and Ariel (Kjerstine Anderson) study a bee hive in “Queen.” Courtesy Reed Flores. People build friendships on all kinds of common ground, but in the play ...

If the queen can't find a nest site and ... Until the exoskeleton is set, bees and wasps can't fly to forage, or sting to defend. They also need time to develop a circadian rhythm.

Ph. D. students Sanam (Uma Paranjpe) and Ariel (Kjerstine Anderson) study a bee hive in “Queen.” Courtesy Reed Flores. People build friendships on all kinds of common ground, but in the play “Queen,” ...

produced by a single queen. Bumble bee nests are small compared to honey bees, as each nest contains only a few hundred individuals. Paper wasps are beneficial because they feed on insects considered ...