On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...
When most people think of bees, they think of honeybees living in hives; but do you recognize native bees? Most native bees are solitary, living in a hole inside a tree, a hollow plant stem, or ...
This video shows an Australian stingless native beehive being split to make two hives. These Australian native bees are called Tetragonula carbonaria, but there are over 1500 different varieties of ...
Adding a bee hotel to your garden is a wonderful way to support native pollinators. Unlike honeybees that live in large hives, most of our native bees are solitary. They spend their lives diligently ...
Most people think a pollinator garden requires tearing up their entire lawn, hiring a landscaper, or knowing the Latin names of plants. None of that is true. You can start with a five-by-five-foot ...
New monitoring initiative combines traditional beekeeping with environmental sensor technology to support conservation, education and biodiversity research ...
North Dakota is the top honey producing state in the country, and nearby states are also leaders in the industry. Beekeeping isn't just a big commercial operation, though, and many smaller-scale ...
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From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...