More importantly, the honey bee does as much crop pollination as all other bees (around 20,000 species) combined. Bee hives are familiar. But who has seen a wild-living colony? Honey bee swarms ...

Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a study ...

After accompanying scientists through the forests of Germany’s Hainich National Park as they studied bees in the wild, Arndt got ... the purpose of extracting honey. What he really wanted ...

By Ryan Truscott Honey-hunters in northern Mozambique rely on honeyguide birds to locate three-quarters of their harvest each ...

I don’t think there is another animal on the planet considered to be as beneficial to humanity as the honey bee (Apis mellifera). For our earliest hominid ancestors, to have come across a wild bee ...

The drawback for some people is that none of the wild bee species produce honey. But, says Droege, “we can always get honey from other countries.” ...

The honey is made by the bees starting early in the spring as soon as the first ... tulip poplar and a variety of other wild flowers. Late August up until early fall, they are bringing in goldenrod, ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend ... (It is not advisable to use brown sugar as it is harder for bees to digest and don’t give bumblebees honey as this can contain ...

Charmaine brings wild bees into the popular imagination through her larger than life wire sculptures, evoking the relative invisibility of wild bees and highlighting the tremendous role they play ...

Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species ... These included more efficient handling of the bees and techniques for extracting honey. Desertification and land degradation are ...

Honey-hunters in all 47 villages in the 4.2-million-hectare (10.4-million-acre) Niassa Special Reserve get help from the birds to find wild bees’ nests, says study lead author and behavioral ...