A team from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia have come up with a way of using drones to monitor the bees while they work. The unmanned aerial vehicles fly around, capturing footage of the ...

Before the word was used to describe aircraft, ‘drone’ had two meanings. First as a continuous low humming sound, and second as a male bee. The male bee does no work, gathers no honey ...

The new Biotracks technology tracks the harmonic radar tags attached to bees with a receiver carried on a drone in a bid to improve understanding of what is happening to pollinators. Team leader ...

The word "drone" actually derives from German, by way of Old English: "drān" means male bee. It is, of course, an onomatopoetic word. One that sounds like what it is. The drone of a hornet ...

Many volumes have been written on the honey bee, yet no surprise can be felt ... Snodgrass's scepticism as to the parthenogenetic nature of “drone” eggs seems also unwarranted after the ...

Also there is only one queen per bee population. One of the most extraordinary scenes in the film is this of a drone mating in mid-flight with a queen. NOVA: How did you get the shot from the side ...