Beekeepers in South Australia are seeing less than 10 per cent of their annual honey production this season as drought strips ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Commercial beekeeping is favouring a single bee species, the honey bee ... In the meantime, Mr Nagarajah gets to eat honey again - if only in small quantities for now. "I tasted the 23rd ...

Learn important facts about native bees. Plant your garden with native bees in mind and help these powerful pollinators ...

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 ...

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

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.

IN this modest pamphlet the author has given to entomologists an original, trustworthy, and excellently illustrated account of the structure of the honey bee, and another instance has been ...

Weather conditions and Varroa mite infestations have caused high honeybee colony losses in Alberta, said president Curtis ...

He noted that honey collected early in the dry season, from February to May, is thicker and of higher quality, fetching at ...