Spring is here, and along with the warmer weather comes honey bee swarms. That means you may notice large groups of honey bees near your home this season and into the summer, as the insects search for ...

This past week, I stopped at the grocery store to pick up several twenty-five bags of sugar for feeding my honey bees a heavy ...

It has been a great spring to be a honey bee. For two months it seemed like the whole world was blooming. Cleveland pear trees, red buds, forsythia, tulips, crocus, daffodils, dogwood, hyacinth, ...

My coworker, Eco Geek Sarah Jackson, received this letter from a local beekeeper who wonders if her neighbor’s herbicide spraying could kill her bees. I asked Dave Pehling at the WSU extension for his ...

Among the many threats to honey bee colonies around the world, one stands alone: the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. For decades, researchers assumed that varroa mites feed on blood, like many of ...

When given the choice, honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide chlorothalonil over sugar syrup alone, researchers report. When given the choice, honey bee foragers ...

So far, this dry spring is turning out to be a mixed blessing. On one hand, the dry, warm weather is allowing gardeners to get an early head start on their gardens. It’s so early in fact, gardeners ...

WASHINGTON — If you’re dealing with that sniffling, itchy feeling that comes with spring allergy season, you know how sweet relief can feel – and taste. Rising pollen counts has people wondering about ...