This year, unseasonably high April temperatures have triggered an earlier bounty of nectar for area bees and an earlier start to the swarm season — which more typically begins in May.

so you have bees who have long tongues to slurp nectar out of flowers that have deep cups or bees that have short tongues because they nest on broad, flat flowers. They have special hairs to ...

Flowers are blooming and bees are looking for nectar and pollen. As the temperatures continue to get warmer, swarming behavior increases, per Penn State Extension. That means Pittsburghers have ...

This rare behavior was motivated by a very intense competition for nectar ... bees made news two days ago when, in the village of La Esperanza in the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia, a swarm ...

Lealand said swarming, which can be between 10,000 and 15,000 bees, is a reproductive split of the colony, where bees begin to increase in numbers and in amounts of honey, nectar and pollen.