“Put a pound ol brown sugar in a low tin dish, wet it with water, and lay a number of small strips of wood across for the bees to rest on while at work. One pound ot six-cent sugar produces two ...

Bugs be gone! Discover seven smart and easy ways to keep bees and wasps away from your hummingbird feeders, without harming ...

Bees are trucked over great distances to pollinate crops from almonds to alfalfa, in a practice that’s bad for their health and that of native pollinators. How can we fix the system? In some ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Longtime Southcentral Alaska beekeepers say that for decades, many have killed their insects each summer. But for some, ...

His grandfather had about 10 hives, his father 40, and bees were always around when Šercelj was a child. But he was the first to go from hobbyist to professional beekeeper. Though he studied ...

Intense competition for nectar led a species of stingless bee in the tropics to develop the ability to feed on meat. These are the only bees in the world that evolved to use non-plant food sources.

Nutrition and what bees are feeding on during critical times also has an impact on how they make it through the winter.” Aside from declining bee populations, the business of beekeeping has seen ...