Join us for a day at the Self Sufficient Me property, where sustainable living takes center stage. Discover how fresh eggs ...

Join Mark from Self Sufficient Me as he revisits five Australian native stingless bee hives that were split into ten. In this ...

Over 400 native bee species exist in New York, most of which are solitary ground-nesters. Native bees are vital pollinators, especially for certain fruits and vegetables, using a "buzz pollination" ...

Without them, many fruits, vegetables, and flowering plants would struggle. Yet, bee populations are under threat.

“When California was wild, it was one sweet bee garden throughout its entire length, north and south and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the ocean,” wrote John Muir in 1894’s “The ...

When you think ‘bees,’ you probably think of a neat stack of white hive boxes and the jars of honey on the store shelves. But there’s a lot more to bees than the agricultural staple, the European ...

Projects affiliated with the University of California have helped farmers integrate and support native bee populations. The presence of native pollinators not only increases crop yield, research has ...

Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker ...

This spring, I was getting scared because I saw so few bees in any of the gardens I visited. Finally in early May, whew! Bees of many kinds began to appear, along with many other insect pollinators.

More and more Illinois residents — including a few in west-central Illinois — have taken up beekeeping in recent years, whether it's for honey or just for the bees' sake.