In winter months, closely monitor weight of honey bee hives to avoid starvation. Take advantage of 50-plus degree days by feeding hives that lack food stores then.

Beekeepers in New South Wales have resorted to hand-feeding their hives as the drought cripples the bees' ability to make honey and survive winter. Beekeepers in NSW are feeding their hives a sugar ...

After Saturday’s publication in The Vancouver Sun of our new Honey Bee Zen blog, I received a note from Ian Tait, an old Olympics friend who is now involved in an effort to help bees make it in this ...

Christian W. W. Pirk received funding from University of Pretoria and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free riders” attracted to ...

A BEEKEEPER and pest control worker has issued advice on how to feed and look after bees this summer. Kane Wallace, living in Roughlee, Pendle, and working around East Lancashire, is a beekeeper and ...

The Queensland Beekeepers' Association has used World Bee Day to call for a financial lifeline, warning crops will fail if starving bees don't make it through winter. The Queensland Beekeepers' ...

-- Bees of the genus Lisotrigona were recorded feeding on human sweat and tears in two instances in Mizoram and Chhattisgarh. The feeding of insects on tears and sweat is called lachryphagy and ...

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Tait pointed me to this cooperative effort by the Delta Chamber of Commerce and Earthwise Society to promote the planting of bee-friendly flowers and vegetation. The effort is in direct response to ...