and you need no special protective equipment when raising them in your backyard. One significant difference between solitary ...

When farmer Kamal Bell first established a beekeeping operation at Sankofa Farms in North Carolina, his son Akeem was four years old and scared of bees. But with his father’s coaching—and the help of ...

Honeybee populations are again declining, threatening crops. But the honeybee is not the only bee that can work in the fields ...

The pesticides can kill the bees or weaken their immune systems, making them more susceptible to disease ... “We have the opposite of colony collapse at my farm,” he said.

To reproduce, most flowering plants depend on a third party to transfer pollen between their male ... Recent studies show that bees off the farm have a healthier and more varied diet than those ...

When they visit, pollen from the anther sticks to them and they carry it away ... by roads and buildings or are used for farming. This means that bees now have fewer places where they can make ...

February brought the longed-for colour to gardens and fields with spring bulbs in the former and gorse in the latter, writes Ethel ...