Aside from making a delicious natural sweetener, honeybees—which are not native to the U.S.—also provide a crucial service to agriculture: pollination. From apples to almonds, many crops would ...

Discover fascinating insights into the behavior of honey bees. A new study reveals how far they travel to forage and how long ...

These honeybees aren’t wildlife ... Almond and other fruit farmers depend on bee facilitated pollination, and the agricultural demand for their services is behind much of the boom in the ...

In some cases, wild bees do not appear to contribute much to crop pollination, with honeybees doing most of the work ... but this research also highlights our basic philosophy that conservation and ...

From December to February, mustard fields across Bangladesh become buzzing ecosystems as bees, both wild and domesticated, ...

And a large proportion of the world’s food supply is directly, or indirectly, affected by honey bee pollination. Here in the UK around 70 crops are dependent upon, or benefit from, visits by ...

At Penn State Extension's Greenhouse Growers Day, Patricia Prade presented ways to protect pollinator insects when using ...

Fuller explains that with the current agricultural footprint, there are not enough honeybees in the natural environment to pollinate all the fruit trees in the blossom period. An industry of ...

The one thing that comes to mind when I find out that Maine has it's own official state insect, is "How cute is that?" ...

Honeybees are critical to a balanced ecosystem and the agricultural economy. Honey production and crop pollination are the primary benefits of beekeeping. In a global trade economy, large-scale ...

New legislation aimed at strengthening protections for the island’s disease-free bee population and unique ecosystem has been introduced by the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture (DEFA).