Even though it is more typical to hear about the dangers of pesticides, pathogens, and CCD on honeybees, every now and again the real dangers of unbalanced nutrition gain the right appreciation when it comes to honeybee colonies. As a legitimate threat to honeybee health, unbalanced nutritional diets come in large part from honeybees being…
Details
The effects of pesticides on honeybees and other insects have long been a source of debate for growers, beekeepers, and researchers, though most or all will agree some pesticides, specifically those containing neonicotinoids, are especially toxic to pollinating insects. Efforts have been put in place to help reduce bee poisonings via toxic pesticides like those…
Details
Reports of declining honeybee populations due to mites, diseases, and pesticides have unfortunately become the norm, with plenty of researchers doing what they can to alleviate the problem. Luckily, there are plenty of others out there as well going the extra mile to help the hurting pollinators—and, surprisingly, some of those others are San Francisco…
Details
Grilled Honey-Glazed Pork Tenderloins with Onions Whether you’ve been cooking large family dinners for years or you just like to try new recipes, this recipe for Grilled Honey-Glazed Pork Tenderloins with Onions will not only taste impeccable, but you might be looking at your go-to meal for those family dinner nights and those gatherings meant…
Details
For some lucky parts of the country, this past winter season had several spurts of warm days, with temperatures sometimes climbing as high as 70 degrees before coming back down to the typically frigid air one expects of winter. While it was nice to have glimpses of spring and a break from the cold, there…
Details
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a crisis involving honeybees disappearing from their hives, is still a rampant concern for beekeepers and researchers everywhere, given our heavy dependence on the pollinators for one third of what we eat. While there have been reports of these collapses decreasing, the concern will never really go away until populations are…
Details
Manuka honey has grown quickly into one of the most sought after bee products on the market with plenty of reason. Consumers love the New Zealand product for its richness and many benefits in spite of the high prices associated with a limited supply—local NZ beekeepers who’ve been in the business for years are seeing…
Details
At some point in recent years, raising one’s own honeybee colonies became a popular hobby, in line with the “green trend” sweeping the nation and showcasing environmental awareness. And while many are getting into beekeeping, most people view honeybees as “just honeybees,” without knowing different breeds. Just like Angus and Holstein cows, border collies and Labradors,…
Details
When one thinks about lavender, that person likely thinks of aromatherapy and the claim it can calm and modify moods. While we hear of it is a powerful, calmative scent for stress or anxiety, most haven’t thought about how it affects honeybees. According to Charles Claudianos, a professor of neurogenetics at Monash University, “What we’ve…
Details
With honeybee populations in crisis, many now understand the basic process of beekeeping and what it entails raising and caring for bees in exchange for honey. We know better now what makes honeybees tick, but such focus on solving this crisis makes people forget wild honeybees are still a vital source of honey in places…
Details
Spinach Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing While there are plenty out there with an innate fear of salads—whether for an alleged lack of flavor or people not having a variety of ideas—salads are still one of the easiest ways to get a boost of energy and the plethora of nutrients we need but don’t always…
Details
The desperate situation for global honeybee populations has left many researchers, scientists, and even political leaders worried about how they can possibly support the world’s growing population and its food demands with collapsing bee colonies everywhere. There have been many studies performed to understand the origins of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and how to possibly…
Details
With global honeybee populations plummeting at staggering rates, researchers are implementing conservation efforts left and right to decrease the rate of loss or stop it all together, especially with our own growing food demands depending on honeybees. One of the many causes believed linked to their declining populations and collapsing colonies (called colony collapse disorder…
Details
In the past few years, Manuka honey prices have gone up as their value and global appreciation went up even further, especially given the few producers who were actually in the market. Because of that high market value, beekeepers all over New Zealand—the birthplace and only known grower of Manuka bushes—are trying to break into…
Details
Modern agriculture is what is today due to centuries and even millennia of improving and refining techniques and, for some agriculture, domesticating animals from cows, dogs, and even honeybees to a degree. From their roles as pollinators and the products they produce—honey, beeswax—honeybees have gone from largely wild animals to domesticated creatures whom we can…
Details