Cultivating the best nectar-producing plants for honey bees and other pollinators is a crucial endeavour for both local and regional insect and bird populations. Growing nectar-rich plants is also ...

Pakistan’s bees once produced 22 varieties of honey, but that has plummeted to 11 as flowering seasons shorten. Three of the ...

Honey bees (Figure 1) and bumble bees (Figure 2), common eusocial pollinators, are generalists that visit many plant species to obtain nectar and pollen. Honey bees, the most important crop ...

Jennifer and Marcus Zbinden’s Chanhassen backyard is all abuzz this summer. Over a year and a half ago, Jennifer Zbinden requested that the city amend its ordinance regarding beekeeping in ...

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 ...

Similar to the familiar European honeybee, stingless bees form colonies consisting of one queen tended by multiple foraging workers that make and store honey from the nectar that they gather.

While social honeybees have survived the winter by eating stored honey and huddling together to keep warm, some of their ...