It will cover equipment, anatomy, honey bee life cycle, nutrition, pests, diseases, seasonal management, and products of the hive. Instructors are local beekeepers and members of the Anson County ...

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

Honey bee mortality can be significantly reduced by ensuring that treatments for the parasitic Varroa mite occur within specific timeframes, a new study reveals.

Entomologists are gluing tiny QR codes on honey bees to better track the pollinators’ travel habits and life cycles. In doing so, they hope to gain a more complete and accurate understanding of ...

More than the latest in apiarian fashion, the little tags serve a scientific purpose: tracking when bees go in and out of their hives to better understand how long honey bees spend foraging for ...

Honey is a stimulant of melatonin, the hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle. The intake of warm honey water before bed will naturally aid in the secretion of melatonin, thus helping you ...

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Researchers from the University of Liège, as part of the FreezeBEE project, have achieved a promising breakthrough in bee insemination. For the first time, an attempt using frozen semen without ...

Varroa mite is a parasite that kills honey bee colonies and transmits viruses to its hosts. So far it has become established in New South Wales and spread to Victoria, since entering the country ...

He noted that depending on the floral source, which is the specific type of flower that bees primarily collect nectar from, honey can set even quicker. “At 21C, oil seed rape honey for example ...