Bees learn to play soccer in bizarre study

Researchers first showed them what to do by using a pretend bee - a piece of striped yellow and black plastic attached to a stick. Playing one at a time, they had to push or pull the ball into a hole in the middle of the playing surface to get the reward.

Montana beekeeper stung by beehive thieves in California

Lloyd Cunniff tells the Great Falls Tribune it appeared the thieves used semitrailers to steal about 190,000 bees between Monday night and Tuesday morning in Yuba City, California. He said he was storing the bees on a fellow beekeeper's property before moving them to Fresno, where he had a contract to pollinate almond trees.