Apis mellifera, the western honeybee, is big business; the pollination services the bees provide to US agriculture are valued at roughly $14 billion. Unfortunately, bees the world over are suffering ...

If you want to a kill a honeybee hive’s buzz, take all its honey away and feed the bees a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup. Believe it or not, apiarists have been doing just that since the ...

Urban beekeeping is a growing trend, but some scientists have worried bees in the city might turn to processed sugars for food. N.C. State researcher Clint Penick was inspired to study urban bee diets ...

Feeding established hives sugar water or high fructose corn syrup is almost never necessary—nor is feeding necessary when creating nucleus hives (nucs). In this article, I hope to convince you that ...

HFCS can compromise the ability of honey bees to cope with pesticides and pathogens. Normally, bees feed on their own honey–a potent mix of detoxifying compounds that provide immunity to disease.

Not really, only 3 neonicotinoids out of 7 or so, and only for specific crops and applications, and only for 2 years at most. Given the high half life of some of these substances, crop rotation ...