Learn how to stay calm and confident around bees by understanding their behavior, using proper techniques, and building trust through experience—key steps for both your safety and the bees' well-being!

Curious about foundationless beekeeping versus traditional foundation methods? Learn the pros, cons, and how-to tips to help you decide which approach is best for your bees and your beekeeping goals.

Honey bees are facing serious challenges from pesticide exposure, climate change, parasites like the Varroa mite, and the stress of large-scale pollination practices. These combined threats are contributing to the alarming decline in bee populations worldwide.

Honey bees play a critical role in pollinating many of the crops we rely on daily, contributing to about one-third of the food we consume in the U.S. From fruits and vegetables to nuts like almonds, their work is essential for agriculture and highlights the importance of practices like migratory beekeeping to ensure successful harvests across the country.

As fall brings increased robbing behavior among bees, learn how to protect your hive and ensure your colony’s survival with these essential tips.

It's swarm season, and if you're curious about how to safely and successfully capture a bee swarm, this guide will walk you through the process—from assessing the situation to getting the bees into their new home.

Uncover the truth about honey adulteration and learn how to ensure the honey you buy is pure, natural, and free from misleading practices.

Learn about the different ways you can start your very own backyard beehive.

Discover the incredible world of honey bee vision, where five eyes and ultraviolet sight guide these tiny pollinators to nectar-rich flowers with precision and efficiency.

Discover the reasons and timing for feeding your bees, ensuring their health and survival.

Discover the incredible ways honey bees generate warmth during the winter, using teamwork and their own bodies to survive even the harshest cold.

Curious about the buzz around 5G and its potential impact on honey bees? Dive into the science behind the concerns and discover what we really know about how this new technology might affect our vital pollinators.

Honey bees possess a highly developed sense of touch, relying on specialized sensory structures like sensilla and mechanoreceptors to detect vibrations, pressure, and even magnetic fields. These abilities are crucial for navigation, communication, and survival within their intricate hive environment. Read on to learn all about it!

Ever wondered how honey bees share the location of the best flower patches? Discover the fascinating world of bee dances, where waggle runs and round dances guide fellow bees to rich food sources with remarkable precision.

In this blog post we'll learn about how bees collect pollen and why it’s an important part of their diet.

Learn about the important role that worker bees play within the bee colony.

Learn about the different types of bees that make up a honey bee colony.

The general public has some misconceptions about honey bee swarms. The phrase “swarming bees” can invoke a sense of fear in people because they think the swarming bees are angry or upset. But rest assured that couldn’t be further from the truth! Swarming bees are extremely gentle as they’ve just gorged themselves on honey to prepare for the swarming event and have no honey or babies to protect so they’re less defensive. In this blog post I’ll break down the details of swarming. Read on to learn more!

Each jar of honey is unique and reflects the terroir of the hive’s region. Read on to learn more about terroir and it’s impact on honey.

Let's learn about the incredible history and relationship between plants and pollinators.