Rachael E. Bonoan, PhD

As some of you may have seen on Facebook, the Starks Lab “bee huts” got a serious facelift this summer. During the first week of the...

As described in my last post (Battling Bees), my current research project involves mass-marking bees from 8 separate observation hives so...

To investigate honey bee mineral preferences, I put out artificial feeders (the upside-down tubes in the video) with different mineral...

Honey bees can be trained to do a lot of things. Recently, they have been trained to detect bombs, diabetes, and maybe even cancer. I...

Why do honey bees like dirty water? It is a common question—in fact, this is not the first blog post concerning honey bees and dirty...