While honey producers and beekeepers have ways to treat varroa-infested hives, the bees themselves also have a few tricks up their sleeve.

Honey bees are an introduced species that are extremely important but they are not a native species to Canada,” said Dr.

Honey bees produce Manuka honey by pollinating the leptospermum scoparium bush (tea tree) native to Australia and New Zealand. The bushes grow uncultivated and the honey must pass rigorous tests ...

Bee Swarm Simulator is a game in which you control a swarm of bees. Your main goal is to make as much honey as possible by completing quests, hatching eggs, and more. To make honey, you must collect ...

Propolis is a mixture of pollen and beeswax produced by honey bees. It contains flavonoids and has antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties. Propolis has a long history of use as a ...

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He is a native English speaker. Biologists have tagged hundreds of bees with QR codes so they can track their movements, and in doing so they have finally begun to solve the mystery of how far ...

CANYON, Texas (KFDA) - As temperatures drop across the Texas Panhandle, the team at Creek House Honey Farm is hard at work to ensure their bees survive. In the months of January and February ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Several hundred honey bees in rural Pennsylvania and New York are sporting tiny high-tech accessories—miniature QR codes glued to their backs. These tags aren’t just the latest ...

Entomologists are gluing tiny QR codes on honey bees to better track the pollinators’ travel habits and life cycles. In doing so, they hope to gain a more complete and accurate understanding of ...

More than the latest in apiarian fashion, the little tags serve a scientific purpose: tracking when bees go in and out of their hives to better understand how long honey bees spend foraging for ...

This order contains five other families — some of which include well-known insects like wasps and honey bees. There are four subfamilies within the Halictidae family. These are the ...