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 ...

Would you bee-lieve that mowing your lawn too early can be bad for the bees? Flowers like dandelions will be starting to grow ...

It’s not just honey that we would lose if bees went ... to find out more about the best bee-friendly flowers that can be grown on a balcony or in smaller spaces to help you get started.

There are a handful of plants that add visual appeal to your landscape while keeping bees at bay. Some include peppermint, ...

Washington State University entomologists announced this week that commercial honey bee colony losses are projected to reach ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...

Vermont native bees are a very different creature than the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and, some biologists point out, increasing the honey bee population does not help native bees. “Honey bees are to ...