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 ...

The Greeks, the Egyptians, and the Romans were all partial to domesticated honey. By the Middle Ages, bee-keepers were using skep hives - they're the classic woven beehives that look like a ...

The discovery could support the growth of stingless bee honey markets, and ultimately enable healthier sweet treats of all types, the scientists argue. Similar to the familiar European honeybee ...

and honey would become a thing of the past. Not only that, but as Prof Goulson explains, if non-food related plants that bee pollinate disappeared, there could be further problems: “All the ...

Could you tell a nomad bee from a blood bee or sharp-tail bee? Honey bees grab most of the limelight with their produce used for food, drink, drugs and skincare products. But they are just one of ...

Not only does it physically plant these fantastic pollinators in your garden, but you also get an incredible byproduct as a ...

Thanks to a combination of efforts by beekeepers, better farming practices and reduced pesticide use, populations are showing ...

Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon ... bees pollinate 95 crops worth an estimated $10 billion in the U.S. alone. All told, insect pollinators contribute to one-third ...

In the US, the number of honey-bee colonies dropped from 6 million in 1947 to 2.5 million just six decades later. But their analysis on all insects in Europe and North America, not just honey bees.

Russell Heitkam, whose Heitkam’s Honey Bees is a major producer of queens ... but potentially for all invertebrates,” said Freitak, the company’s scientific cofounder.

DNA analysis indicates the world's most common bee originated in northern Europe around 780,000 years ago, before spreading into East Africa and Arabia around 120,000 years later. Wild queen ...

As an official Bee City, Calgary has banned the spraying ... Anderson still raves about the cocktail she had at an all-honey dinner that Rouge hosted. “The bartender made this smoked-honeycomb ...