Just as importantly, it helps to feed many other animals in the food chain and maintains the genetic diversity of the flowering plants. Honey bees feature almost weekly in the news. Headlines ...

People of Bumthang harvest honey in July and September. Honey extracted in July is considered purer because in summer bees get to feed on varieties of flowers and tree buds. One honey box can ...

At this unconventional research lab, government scientists and curious community members support native pollinators and other ...

These expert-recommended tips explain how to keep bees away from hummingbird feeders so you can enjoy ... have shiny yellow hairless bodies while honey bees are hairier and have pollen clustered ...

Most of a native bee’s life is spent in the nest, transforming from egg to adult, usually overwintering and pupating in the spring as an adult. They like to find a large patch of the same blooming ...

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 ... see is a number of boxes stacked on a tractor ...

As a hobby, beekeeping in the city seems to be growing despite some challenges and even questions about whether honeybees may ...

and going to retrieve the machine-harvested honey. "In a regular beehive, with a wooden box, there's about 10,000 to 50,000, or maybe even 100,000 bees," says Beewise chief executive Saar Safra.

Since bees gather the honey from within only a few miles of their hives, beekeepers are able to influence where and upon what the bees feed and the final style and flavour the honey will have.

“Every box is like a city,” says Gaillard, pointing out the bubbles where bees store honey, and the hexagonal “castle” made of beeswax that serves ... and color depending on when the flowers the bees ...

Stingless bees produce a healthier honey, uniquely rich in a rare sugar, called trehalulose, which may have benefits ranging from ranking low on the glycaemic index (GI) to displaying antioxidant ...

We were catching insects that were visiting canola plants and we found that by far the most dominant insect visiting those crops were hoverflies, unless there were honey bee hives around.