In the beekeeping world it is common to harvest the honey in the fall. In natural beekeeping, we try to leave enough honey to sustain the bees to last until spring. However many beekeepers feed ...

A lab-made diet sparked a 15-fold boom in bee reproduction, pointing to a possible solution for collapsing colonies.

Feeding bees corn syrup may leave them vulnerable to colony collapse The honey it replaces revs up their immune and detoxification systems.

In this blog, I hope to convince beekeepers that not feeding the bees is better for the health of the bees and for the beekeeper's bottom line.

KAMPALA - Farmers have been asked to feed their bees, just like it is done for any other animal, in order to harvest honey continuously. Failure to provide alternative feeds will cause the bees to ...

In a series of experiments, researchers found evidence that the varroa mites that attack honey bees do not have an appetite for hemolymph or bee blood. What do these parasites feed on?

Among the many threats to honey bee colonies around the world, one stands alone: the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. For decades, researchers assumed that varroa mites feed on blood, like many ...

Among the many threats to honey bee colonies around the world, one stands alone: the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. For decades, researchers assumed that varroa mites feed on blood, like many ...