As the weather begins to warm and pollen begins floating through the air, so do claims that eating local honey helps with seasonal allergies.
This video investigates the biological process that transforms an ordinary larva into a queen bee. It explains how specialized feeding with royal jelly alters development, triggering profound physical ...
After cold winters, invertebrates such as honeybees and paper wasps seem to disappear and then suddenly return in large ...
As spring approaches, trees begin to bloom, and the iconic almond blossoms adorn the farmland throughout the Central Valley. People come from miles around to take photos in pinkish-white orchards and ...
Walking toward the front steps of my home on a warm evening last week, I stopped in my tracks. My attention turned to the ...
While Bee School is a great resource for beginner beekeepers, Cousins says there are more ways throughout the year to get ...
Although they look like bees, they are a type of fly engaging in Batesian mimicry, a type of identity theft that’s done to fool predators. To tell whether it’s a fly or a bee, a closer look shows ...
When Andrea Glenn and her husband, Russell Gibbs, decided to take over the Gibbs family honey business, 30 bee hives had to ...
Vasquez’s biggest concern for his bees was their food supply. When the weather is cold, the bees can’t leave the hive for ...
Bumblebee queens possess a remarkable ability to survive underwater for days, a feat achieved through a combination of physiological strategies. When their burrows flood, these queens enter an ...
Oklahoma's springtime weather brings out various insects, from beneficial pollinators like red paper wasps to pests like mosquitoes and ticks.
The Association of Beekeepers of the Balearics (ABA) is launching a project to install sentinel apiaries at the port of Palma, aiming for early detection of invasive wasps arriving on goods or vessels ...