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 ...

Farmers from Australia to the UK are using drones to pollinate food crops like tomatoes, but can technology ever replace bees? In towering glasshouses at a tomato farm in South Australia, everything ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pentagon successfully showed off its Perdix miniature drones which can work together to attack enemies like a swarm of killer bees. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Military & Defense The ...