Honey bees use their stores of energy-rich honey to get them through lean times, including winter. Worker bees gather nectar from flowers and convert it into enough honey to keep the colony alive. How do bees make honey from nectar? Answer: Nectar contains about 80% water, along with complex sugars. Left in its natural state, … More How do bees make honey

The honey bee is an important pollinator of commercial crops. The honey bee, Apis mellifera, is one of several species of bees that produce honey. Honey bees live in colonies, or hives, of 50,000 bees on average. A honey bee colony consists of a queen, drones, and workers. All play roles in the survival of … More The Habits and Traits of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

  Bee pollen is the male seed of a flower blossom which are collected by the honey bees and mixed with the bees’ digestive enzymes. It’s a blend of sticky pollen granules that could contain up to five million pollen spores each. Raved by many scientists as a complete nutrition, a super nutritious, perfect food, … More Bee Pollen’s Super Healing Power

The combination of honey and cinnamon has been used for centuries in both traditional Chinese and Ayurveda, a system of healing founded 5000 years ago in India. The two ingredients with unique healing abilities have a long history as ahome remedy. Cinnamon is one of the oldest spices known to mankind and honey’s popularity has … More Honey and Cinnamon Remedy

An isolated population of honeybees, the Cape bees, living in South Africa has evolved a strategy to reproduce without males. A research team has sequenced the entire genomes of a sample of Cape bees and compared them with other populations of honeybees to find out the genetic mechanisms behind their asexual reproduction. Most animals reproduce … More How some honeybees do without males

The following pleading email has been sent around the world, in petitioned format, encouraging people of conscience to speak out against the potential travesty of a buy out by Bayer of Monsanto, one of the biggest chemical corporations in the world. “Breaking news: We just found out that Bayer is definitely moving forward on its … More Urgent email traverses the globe in an attempt to rescue the bees and ourselves at the same time

Male bumblebees are just as smart as female worker bees despite their dim-witted reputation, according to new research from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Researchers from QMUL’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences trained male and female bumblebees to distinguish between artificial flowers that contained food and another that did not. The new study … More Male bees have more than a one-track mind

If the backyard isn’t buzzing this summer, blame it on deadly mites and the diseases they carry, says Dewey Caron, the University of Delaware’s resident ‘bee guy,’ who braves apiaries from America to the Amazon, and most recently joined a team investigating major honeybee losses in the northeastern United States. Golden honeybees are essential for … More If the backyard isn’t buzzing this summer, blame it on deadly mites and the diseases they carry

This is a a bumblebee covered in body hairs. Credit: University of Bristol Tiny, vibrating hairs may explain how bumblebees sense and interpret the signals transmitted by flowers, according to a study by researchers at the University of Bristol. Although it’s known that flowers communicate with pollinators by sending out electric signals, just how bees detects … More Dancing hairs alert bees to floral electric fields

Bees in urban areas stick to a flower-nectar diet, steering clear of processed sugars found in soda and other junk food, new research indicates. Research from North Carolina State University finds that bees in urban areas stick to a flower-nectar diet, steering clear of processed sugars found in soda and other junk food. Credit: Lauren … More No junk-food diet: Even in cities, bees find flowers and avoid processed sugars