Monthly Archives: August 2017
The findings are far from cut and dry. Interpretations of the industry-funded research have varied, with divisions cutting across media commentators and the scientific community....
Royal jelly. A majestic, sumptuous name for what is very much akin to worker bee snot. Secreted from glands in the heads of nurse bee proles, this milky-colored, protein-rich substance...
The Pollinator Partnership's free, all-year-round guide lets you know which flowers to plant to help your region's pollinators thrive....
Hawaii is doing what it can not to jump on the ‘pesticide treadmill’, instead developing an IPM strategy that gives preference to non-chemical treatments to keep the varroa mite pest...
It isn’t the mite itself which is so bad actually. It’s the plethora of viruses that varroa is vector to which is the real killer....
Turns out bananas contain a compound called isoamyl acetate (also known as isopentyl acetate) – the very same as that in honeybees’ alarm pheromone....
One could conceive of apitherapy as a kind of coercive insect kamikaze-ism performed by charlatans....
Honey bees are foreigners that have taken over the American continent – to our great and lasting benefit. Though we don’t share as much of a history with them as...
It turns out that the hexagonal structure isn’t a ‘life hack’ sussed out by bees at all. It’s more just the laws of physics doing their thing. Several years have...