Placing some of his hives on irrigated watermelons and pumpkins was a lifeline for Mr Johnstone's bees. "I usually get 50 ...

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 ...

Honeycomb, made by honey bees, is a natural sweetener. It provides health benefits like promoting digestion, immune health ...

Some people tout honeycomb as both a nutritious food and a tasty treat. But not everyone should be eating it, nutrition ...

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 ...

Beekeeping, also known as apiculture, is the practice of managing honeybee colonies for various purposes, such as honey ...

And honeybees need the nectar and pollen they collect whilst pollinating to feed the honey bee population and to get them through winter." ...

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 ...

While most adults can eat honey without problems ... botulinum is so common in our environment, researchers believe that bees pick it up on their way to the hive, where they produce honey.

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.

Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar. The honey we eat is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated. The average American consumes ...