Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since abandoned by a black woodpecker. For those first few days of the siege, the honeybees appeared helpless in the face of the hornet ...

Bumble bees mainly nest in underground cavities such as old rodent burrows. However, some species also nest above ground in tall grasses, hollows of trees, bird houses, or even abandoned buildings.

A colony of bees, discovered inside a rotten tree trunk at the Curragh's Wildlife Park on the Isle of Man, have been relocated to a local apiary. Volunteers from the Ramsey and District Beekeepers ...