Feeding established hives sugar water or high fructose corn syrup is almost never necessary—nor is feeding necessary when creating nucleus hives (nucs). In this article, I hope to convince you that ...

October blooms feed bees, but hives need honey stores to survive winter. Learn how to prep colonies, deter pests, and protect bees before the cold sets in.

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 ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Facebook has taken down a fake Sir David Attenborough post encouraging people to feed a teaspoon of sugar water to help struggling bees. Social media was abuzz about the article claiming to be from ...

Nutritionally complete food for honeybees (Apis mellifera) has been generated by engineering yeast to produce rare but essential sterol molecules found in pollen. Honeybee colonies fed with the ...