Sentence examples for back to the hive from inspiring English sources

It flew straight back to the hive.

"I have to get her back to the hive," Branch said.

"I'll get all the honey and go back to the hive and have at it.

Then she stores up all their semen inside her, flies back to the hive, takes half the bees with her and off they swarm.

By the time the bees made it back to the hive, the concentration had increased, to 38 to 40percentthethe researchers report in Biology Letters.

Sometimes foraging bees can't make it back to the hive before dark, and must grab a leaf and wait through night chill for dawn.

Recent declines in bee populations blamed on colony collapse disorder (a phenomenon that may affect a foraging bee's ability to navigate and find its way back to the home hive) due to indiscriminate mosquito spraying and other threats resulted in the EU and parts of the U.S. banning a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, which in several studies had been linked to bee death.

Then, back at the hive, the queen returns through the curtains of golden wax and honey to be greeted by small groups of drones who help her remove the entrails of her lover, including his organ, which she no longer has any use for, with his liquid in her spermatheca.

Nectar is 75% water and honey just 17%: back at the hive, "house" bees remove some of that moisture by a complex procedure of repeated regurgitation and evaporation.

She buzzes around collecting bee sperm then flies back to her hive where she spends the next three to four years laying eggs – 2,000 a day in peak periods – from that one blissful, hazy sex-fest of an afternoon.

First, the researchers tested the insects' ability to navigate back to their hive after being dosed with isoflurane for 6 hours.