We have been in a deep freeze for the past several weeks and people are asking, how do the honey bees survive these frigid ...
Today the humble honey bee provides us with a significant proportion of the food that we eat, all thanks to its action as a pollinating insect. And a large proportion of the world’s food supply ...
From December to February, mustard fields across Bangladesh become buzzing ecosystems as bees, both wild and domesticated, ...
Bees
There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species have been recorded in Wales. The majority of these are solitary bees, but some, like the better-known bumblebees and honeybee, are ...
It takes the bees a few hours in the morning to orient themselves to their new surroundings, where they might stay for two weeks for nectar honey, or two months for silver fir honey. The creatures ...
Loxton-based beekeeper Ian Cass said apiarists were to bear the financial brunt of hand-feeding bees with sugar or pollen supplements. "When you're pulling honey at least you have some income ...