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 ...

There’s more to ‘keeping’ bees than hives and honey, as Rachel de Thample’s new River Cottage Handbook explains ...

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 ...

Vermont native bees are a very different creature than the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and, some biologists point out, ...

Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that under certain conditions ...

However, pollination is from all invertebrates, of which honey bees are a significant contributor. Pollination is the vital process in flowering plant reproduction involving the transfer of pollen ...

Honey is a sweet, sticky substance that bees produce. They pull nectar from flowers and plants, bring it back to their hives and pack it into honeycomb, which is a structure made from hexagon ...