How Honey Bees Turn into Undertakers
Just how do honey bees know when one of their own has fallen? An incredible new study sheds some light on the subject. Read more…
Conservation Biologist Releases ‘Bees are the Best’ Children’s Book
Scientist publishes now book to help children learn more about out favorite pollinator. Read more…
Indian Railway Company Using Honey Bee Sound System to Keep Elephants Away from Tracks
The honey bee sound system is saving elephants in India. Read more…
New Honey Bee Research Facility Launched at WSU
WSU opens new center for honey bee and pollinator research. Read more…
USDA Releases Millions for Honey Bee Protection
More funding to help protect the honey bees! Read more…
Honey Bees Swing into Action in California
Almond season has started and honey bees are answering the bell from around the country. Read more…
Wisconsin City Ponders Honey Bee Friendly Legislation
Appleton is proposing ‘No Mow May’ to give pollinators more food some spring. Read more…
Honey Bee Up for HUGE Honor in Iowa
This is great!
Air Pollution May Be Harming Health of Honey Bees
Yet another factor contributing to the death of honey bees… air pollution.
New Maine Legislation Would Limit Use of Dangerous Pesticides
This would be another great victory for the honey bee. Read more…
Warm Winters Taking a Toll on Honey Bee Populations
Over the last few days, I have been seeing a lot of articles and studies about how climate change is impacting honey bees. Now, I would not really consider this particular concern a climate change issue, because we have always had pockets of warm days in the winter, sometimes more than others. The problem now…
Honey Bee Thieves Caught with $50,000 Haul
A local honey company relied on social media to catch the theives that stole almost five dozen of their honey bee hives. Read more…
Notre Dame Bees ‘Miraculously’ Survived
What an amazing story!
Australian Almond Crop at Risk from Massive Honey Bee Losses
Australian almond growers are hitting the panic button over the massive honey bee losses due to recent wildfires. Read more…
Cities Are Now the Place to ‘Bee’
A new study out of Germany finds that inner-city bees are thriving far more than rural honey bees. Read more…
Want to Help Bees? Plant These Plants in YOUR Yard
We can all do our part, even if it just planting a few new plants to provide food for our bees. Read more…
New Study Says Insecticides Deadlier Than Ever for Honey Bees
Penn State University study on honey bees shows insecticides deadlier than every to honey bees. Read more…
Bees Fleeing Puerto Rico Post-Earthquake
Major problems for beekeepers in Puerto Rico, as honey bees begin to flee the earthquake-ravaged island. Read more…
California Almond Growers Announce Pollinator Protection Plan
As you read this, the internet is blowing up with reports about how bad the almond industry is for the honey bee industry. We just did an article on this very subject last week. The popularity of almonds has dramatically changed the beekeeping industry, which has raised some concerns for the honey bees that pollinate…
Report: Almond Milk Surge Hurting Honey Bee Population
Over the last decade or so, the rise in popularity of almond milk has been rather remarkable. Whole milk alternatives used to be for the lactose intolerant, but that is no longer the case. Athletes and health fanatics have fallen in love with almond milk, but it may be to the demise of the honey…
GBA Creates New Avenue to Save Honeybees
The Georgie Beekeepers Association has come up with a new and exciting way to promote honey bees. Read more…
Urban Beekeeping the ‘In’ Thing in Detroit
Beekeeping becoming more and more common in urban areas, with Detroit being a great example. Read more…
USDA to Open New Honey Bee Research Facility
Great news for our honey bees! Read more…
How to Tell When Bees are Ready to Attack
There have been some pretty disturbing stories in the news lately about people being attacked by swarms of angry honey bees. One story that absolutely blew up the internet just after Christmas was that of an elderly woman being attacked while she was walking her dog. According to reports, she was stung roughly two dozen…
New Zealand Bee Deaths Blamed on Crop Chemicals
Recently, North Island in New Zealand had hundreds of beehives wiped out. Now, local authorities believe they know what the culprit of the mass deaths was. Local reports have stated that chemicals using during maize crop planting were more than likely the culprit. With many businesses on the line, local beekeepers want answers and they…
Florida School Children Get a Quick Lesson in Beekeeping
We firmly believe getting children educated about bees as early as possible goes a long way in promoting the overall health of our honey bees. The more children know, the less likely they are to be afraid of bees if they happen upon a stray hive or a swarm of bees. Earlier this month, a…
Honey Bee-Eating Hornets Found in Washington
As if honey bees don’t have enough problems already, now an Asian hornet known for its tendency to eat honey bees is invading the state of Washington. The hornet is the largest pest of its kind, and it can be quite frightening to both see and hear. However, it is not human blood the pest…
New Study Suggests Honey Bees Can Do Math
We all know honey bees are intelligent creatures. The mere fact they are able to construct these elaborate hives, pollinate random fields and return home, and have an established order in the hive have all proven this fact. But, compared to humans, just how powerful is their brain? Can honey bees do functions we would…
Beekeepers, Get Your Hives Ready for Winter
One of the factors we have learned over the last year that has really hurt honey bees during the winter months is the actual construction of managed hives. These hives are often shaped like boxes, have different compartments, and one small opening at the bottom. They are also rather flimsy in terms of what type…
Is Re-Wilding Bees the Answer?
How can we possibly fight back against the massive deaths being realized around the country, and around the world, of our bee populations in the wild? One possible solution that has been floated has been to rewild domestically raised bees to repopulate areas where wild bees no longer live, such as forest areas that have…
Study Confirms Bees Like… Hemp
So, what do you know… bees like to get their party on just like everyone else! Well, not quite, but they do apparently have an affinity for hemp plants, according to researchers from Cornell University. As it turns out, the bees get no effect at all from the hemp itself, with one of the authors…
Study Shows Importance of Landscape to Honey Bee Survival
We all know winters can be a very trying time for our honey bees. Once the customary pollination season is over, they are forced to live in their hives and survive off whatever honey is left behind for them. While some beekeepers will provide sugar-water for the bees, this is NOT healthy and some studies…
True Activist Warns Bees on ‘Verge of Extinction’
Over the last two or three months, there has definitely been an uptick in the concern level for our favorite pollinator. Not so long ago, we were lucky to find one or two stories about honey bees, but now there are dozens of publications covering bees almost every day. While some of these are “interest”…
‘Total Devastation’ of Idaho Honey Bee Population
There is nothing more devastating to a beekeeper than to check on your hives and see nothing but dead bees on the ground. These days, we seem to be hearing these stories far too often and it is the exact scenario Idaho beekeepers are experiencing right now. Tony Kaneaster of the Kaneaster Apiary, stated, “It’s…
Israeli Company Completed First Phase of Artificial Pollination System
While many scientists and researchers are working diligently to ensure the future of the honey bee, one company is making plans to do without pollinators altogether. Edete Precision Technologies for Agriculture (EPTA), an Israeli startup company, has developed an artificial pollination system that would, in essence, make pollinators obsolete. A Future Without Honey Bees By…
Scientists Discover Natural ‘Bee Medicine’
In addition to our managed honey bee hives, we also have to be concerned about the wild bee and pollinator population in our country and around the world. There is just as much danger for them as there are in our managed hives. We can actually learn a lot from wild hives, however, as they…
Georgia city repurposing dumpsite as new home for honey bees
There truly is beauty in everything… even an old trash dumpsite. Last year, the SeaPoint Industrial Terminal Complex made the news for converting a portion of the complex to a solar installation. Now, the complex is in the news again, but this time it is for converting the old dump to a home for four…
Atlanta’s Bee Downtown Turning Heads
The city of Atlanta has done some pretty incredible things to promote honey bee wellness, and now the city is starting to get its just due. As part of a major project, “house hives” are starting to pop up all over the city. These colorfully painted hives are part of the Bee Downtown project that…
Surfing Bees ARE a Real Thing
Honey bees are very incredible insects, this is something we are all very much aware of. However, even as much as we know about them, they still continue to amaze us from time to time with new facts. I have to admit, when I first read this story, I thought it was a complete hoax,…