This is a busy time of the year for the commercial beekeepers. The majority of the commercial beekeepers are involved in the ...

They are among a third of all crops that need bees for pollination. While northern hemisphere honey bees are increasingly threatened by disease, pesticides, habitat loss and climate change ...

I am most frequently asked questions about honey ... bees" because they carry their pollen under their abdomen (notice the picture lower left). Mason bees use mud in nest construction and are active ...

Artificial pollination may be able to help fill this gap. Lisa Wasko DeVetter Lisa Wasko DeVetter checking a hive of bees "Travel can stress honey bees and weaken colonies, but the business of ...

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 ...

Researchers from several US and Canadian universities looked at seven major fruit, vegetable and nut crops that are dependent on pollination - by wild bees and managed honeybees, which are often ...