Bumble bee survival depends on nest location and extreme heat. Underground nests protect colonies, while aboveground nests ...
Dean Haskin, owner of Mickle Hollow LLC works around the clock with honey bees. “I would say right now is the busiest,” said Haskin. Haskin’s bee farm currently has about 35 bee colonies — which are a ...
Honey bee colonies worldwide suffered massive losses last year, but University of Vermont researchers and international partners developed a new testing method that may lead to more disease-resistant ...
When a bee gets sick, it can’t necessarily social distance. “I like to think of it as a system, as a factory of sorts, with 30,000-40,000 bees crowded…just on top of each other, feeding each other and ...
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A hybrid honeybee thriving in Southern California may hold the key to saving colonies collapsing worldwide
Somewhere in the scrubby hills east of San Diego, feral honeybee colonies are doing something that commercial beekeepers ...
As flowers bloom across the Las Vegas Valley, a husband-wife team behind 'Vegas Bees' spends their weekends safely relocating unwanted hives. While these pollinators play a crucial role in our ...
A new study from researchers at Washington State University and the US Department of Agriculture’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Center suggests warmer falls and winters might be putting human-managed ...
New research finds that higher temperatures can actually benefit some bumble bee species—particularly those that make subterranean nests. However, periods of extreme heat appear to offset those ...
Bumblebee queens don t work nonstop. UC Riverside scientists discovered that queens take strategic reproductive breaks early in colony formation likely to conserve energy and increase the chance of ...
Hundreds of flatbed loads of honey bees are trucked into Washington every spring, enabling the production of apples, cherries, pears and berries in the state. The pollinators are estimated to add at ...
Washington State University researchers have found that a man-made pollen substitute, shaped into bars that beekeepers liken to granola, can strengthen honey bee colonies during the most nutritionally ...
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