Honey bees don't just produce delicious, nutritious honey and multi-purpose beeswax – they also serve critical roles in the larger ecosystem that keep Mother Earth functioning as natural design intended.
Without the bees, we'd be in a world of trouble – as environmentalists and biologists are increasingly discovering by way of the growing threats to honey bees.
Here, we'll dive into the …
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Honey bees are fascinating creatures that display remarkably complex (and well-coordinated) social behaviors, all in the service of protecting and promoting the vitality of the hive.
One of the ways that honey bees practice good "public health" is by social distancing to slow the spread of disease, much in the same way that humans have been encouraged to socially distance …
Early 20th-century French entomologist August Magnan was studying how honey bees fly and theorized, based on known laws of physics, that honey bees' wings were too small to facilitate flight. The magic of honey bee flight remained a mystery – until very recently.
Aspects of honey bee flight we'll explore here include:
Honey Bee Wing Anatomy
How Do Honey Bees Fly …
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Many farmers rent bee hives to pollinate crops, but they could tap into the free labor of wild bees by adopting an as-needed approach to pesticides, a new proof-of-concept study shows.
A multiyear study of commercial-scale fields in the Midwest found this approach led to a 95% reduction in pesticide applications, while maintaining or increasing crop yield …
ARS News Service
Kim Kaplan
October 1, 2021, Baton Rouge, La.- Honey bees could be intentionally bred to thrive on plants that are already locally present or even solely on artificial diets, according to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study.
ARS researchers found individual bees respond differently to the same diet and that there is a strong genetic …
BELTSVILLE, Md., June 22, 2021 – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have found that a component in almond nectar and pollen can reduce honey bee viruses and gut parasites, which are some of the leading threats to bee health and colonies.
The study, published in the journal Insects, showed amygdalin — a naturally-occurring chemical …
Did you know that around 90% of wild plants depend on pollination to survive? Bees are an important part of our daily lives, even though most people aren't aware of the impact they have on our environment.
Many people have taken up having beehives either as their career or as a hobby. Knowing how to install your bees into a hive is vital to …