Want to know the core plants you can grow to add beauty while helping beneficial garden friends? Discover the best nectar-producing plants for honey bees and other pollinators ...
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 ...
We have been in a deep freeze for the past several weeks and people are asking, how do the honey bees survive these frigid ...
For many of us, the simple honey bee is something we only associate with honey and painful stings. But beekeepers understand ...
Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a study ...
John Bachmann is busier than a bee managing the university’s beehives. Officially PNW’s Grounds and Landscape manager, ...
Honey bees are an introduced species that are extremely important but they are not a native species to Canada,” said Dr. Shelley Hoover at a presentation on Pollinators on Jan. 22. It is European ...
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.
Honey bee mortality can be significantly reduced by ensuring that treatments for the parasitic Varroa mite occur within ...