Posts tagged: bees

Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black high school teacher who revolutionized the study of insects

January 23, 2023 | By The Conversation

The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ability to modify their behavior based on experience.

Bee Bearding in China

July 18, 2011 | By Paul Hehn

Wang Dalin is the winner of this year’s bee bearding competition in Shaoyang City, in Hunan Province China. They say he was able to attract nearly 27,000 bees to his body. You can read more about it here (there are more photos, too). Below is the competition’s runner-up, Lu Kongjiang. He was only able to attract about 23,000 bees: