Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker ...
Finally, provide water. A shallow dish filled with pebbles and water, or a birdbath with added rocks, gives thirsty bees a ...
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 ...
The accusations you may have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed by evidence. Entomologists explain that there are ...
Researchers out of Cornell University have discovered one of the largest and oldest bee colonies ever recorded underneath a ...
Many people conflate all bees together, but native solitary bees are actually very different from honeybees. Solitary bees are native, while honeybees are introduced species. Honeybees in Arizona are ...
A natural compound made by Australian bees to seal their hives may help stop scarring in human skin after surgery, injury and ...
We study bees and other vital pollinators, and we can tell you that there are good reasons to love all the bees. In fact, ...