Don’t let your hive starve. Make a bee syrup recipe with tips for when and how to feed your honeybees. As the days get longer, the weather becomes milder, and the air begins to sweeten with hints of ...

Apis mellifera, the western honeybee, is big business; the pollination services the bees provide to US agriculture are valued at roughly $14 billion. Unfortunately, bees the world over are suffering ...

If you want to a kill a honeybee hive’s buzz, take all its honey away and feed the bees a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup. Believe it or not, apiarists have been doing just that since the ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Bee keepers' use of corn syrup and other honey substitutes as bee feed may be contributing to colony collapse by depriving the insects of compounds that strengthen their immune ...

Across the planet honeybees have been in decline. A mysterious disorder leaves hives, full in the fall, empty come spring. The bees are gone, but the bodies missing. It’s a problem with a name—Colony ...

Millions of famished bees with their rain-drenched hives in tatters along Hurricane Ian’s path are feeling the kindness of strangers. Five tanker trucks holding 508,000 gallons of syrup was ...