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"I usually get 50 kilograms of honey per hive, this year if I get 10 kilos I'll call myself lucky," he said. "If I wasn't on ...

It takes the bees a few hours in the morning to orient themselves to their new surroundings, where they might stay for two weeks for nectar honey, or two months for silver fir honey. The creatures ...

Instead, these carrion-feeding bees used those baskets to collect the ... The scientists say that the honey produced by these meat-eating bees is still sweet and edible. The bees store the meat ...

The US has seen annual reductions in honey bee colonies since 2006 ... The bacteria are incorporated into royal jelly feed given by worker bees to the queen bee, which then ingests the feed ...

Since bees gather the honey from within only a few miles of their hives, beekeepers are able to influence where and upon what the bees feed and the final style and flavour the honey will have.

Winter has been with us for several weeks now and even though the days will start to get longer, the temperatures will still ...

Loxton-based beekeeper Ian Cass said apiarists were to bear the financial brunt of hand-feeding bees with sugar or pollen supplements. "When you're pulling honey at least you have some income ...