For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. From my view within the garden industry, this movement has created ...

SWANTON, Ohio — For many of us, the simple honey bee is something we only associate with honey and painful stings. But beekeepers understand their impact goes much further. "If you don't have your ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

Why Are Honey Bees Important? Pollinators like honey bees are crucial in agriculture, affecting one out of every three bites of food we eat. So it’s important for gardeners to support them. Grow ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...

As a science cat, I don’t stir honey into my tea or drizzle it on my biscuits. I don’t have taste receptors for sweet things. Honey doesn’t have a taste to me. But my human friends gobble up the honey ...