For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. From my view within the garden industry, this movement has created ...

SWANTON, Ohio — For many of us, the simple honey bee is something we only associate with honey and painful stings. But beekeepers understand their impact goes much further. "If you don't have your ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

Honey bees must make it back to their hives before dusk to avoid individual bees becoming lost or exposed to nighttime dangers. Forager bees sleep overnight so that they are ready to work the ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...

In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of ...

Bran Romero spent several months visiting the Yakima Valley, where he volunteered for Cowiche Canyon Conservancy. Romero lives on the East Coast and came to the Valley in his role as a volunteer for ...