One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on pollination are five times more valuable than those that do not. Social bees, such as honeybees ...

Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar. The honey we eat is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated. The average American consumes ...

Only 8 out of almost 21,000 bee species in the world die when they sting. Another subset can't sting at all, and the majority of bees can sting as often as they want. But there's even more to it ...

Brown, of Ralston, is this year’s American Honey Queen. She travels across the country educating the public about honeybees, ...

Bees evolved from wasps and they still look a lot like them, which is why the two groups are often confused. But if you are being harassed at a picnic by insects that swarm around the ham and ...

Keep reading to learn more about our work to protect native bees, plus facts about native pollinators and what you can do to help native pollinators in your own yard. Once among the most common and ...

Keep reading to learn more about our work to protect native bees, plus facts about native pollinators and what you can do to help native pollinators in your own yard. Once among the most common and ...

Worldwide, honey bees provide an annual honey crop of approximately one billion kilograms Each honey bee will produce about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime – probably the amount ...