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…
Cherokee Beekeepers Club / Appalachian Beekeepers Association of Georgia Joint Summer Field Trip/Picnic in Jasper Saturday, June 15, 2019 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Location: Pickens County Chamber of Commerce, 500 Stegall Drive, Jasper, GA 30143The Cherokee Beekeepers Club and the Appalachian Beekeepers Association of Georgia…
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…
