If a hotel is well made it can house many generations of bees, becoming a long term home for some from the time they are eggs ...

Mason bees use holes in old wood or thick stems for nesting, so hogweed and brambles make good homes for them. A wood pile will make a safe home for various bees and other invertebrates.

When people think of agriculture, they may not realize all the areas of food production it covers. One of these is apiculture ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...

Narrator: Bees have a very special job to do. They fly from flower to flower collecting a substance called nectar. Then they fly back to their hives and use the nectar to make honey. That's why ...

Early spring is the time to check your overwintered beehives for food and population strength. Hives which went into the ...