Written by MOLLY SAMUEL • FEB 10, 2020 For original article at WABE click here. CREDIT PIXABAY When it’s cold, honey bees cluster together in their hives feeding on the honey they saved to eat through the winter, vibrating to generate warmth. “The bees are…
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BJ Weeks, owner of Weeks Works, currently has two and three pound packages available for sale for differing dates this spring. He expects to be sold out by February, so order NOW! You can download the flier here . Tip: Make sure to attend the…
By Paige Embry, Undark Magazinesmithsonian.comSeptember 30, 2019Read the original and full article here. Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGvFollow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter Virtually everyone in the beekeeping business will tell you that the biggest threat facing honeybees isn’t pesticides, starvation, or even the…
September 10, 2019Article written by Derek Mitchell, The Conversation View the original article here. Credit: Aleksandr Gavrilychev/Shutterstock Despite the importance of nests to honey bees, the hives we build them bear little resemblance and have few of the properties of the natural tree nests European…
Article by: Adam Allington and David Schultz May 23, 2019 View the full article here. Initially, there were three types of European honeybees put to work in the New World. But the Italian honeybees, which were bred to be docile and produce high volumes of…
Written by Jeff Crum with Spectrum News Read the entire article here. Yes, perhaps, bees can predict the weather. The study found that the honey bees, on days prior to rainy days, spent more time out of the hive foraging for honey as compared to…
By Madeline Farber | Fox News To read the full article click here “It’s swarm season! If you see a large cloud of bees congregating somewhere or a large cluster of them hanging on a branch, sign, fence post, etc, DO NOT BE FRIGHTENED! These…
Source:University of Maryland Honey bee colonies around the world are at risk from a variety of threats, including pesticides, diseases, poor nutrition and habitat loss. Recent research suggests that one threat stands well above the others: a parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, which specializes in attacking…
A nearly three-decade-old mystery of mass honeybee mortality appears to have been solved by researchers in the UK. The collapse of bee colonies in France during the mid- to late-1990s was widely blamed on the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid, but new research has revealed the likely…
