Now that you've hived your bees, you'll want to check on them weekly to be sure that the queen is alive and laying eggs. You should be able to find...
Horticultural Hive-Mind: A Gardener’s Guide To Protecting the Bees
When you see a small, striped, stinging creature making its way from flower to flower, you might be inclined to cry out in fear. If you’re allergic or entomophobic, it’s...
Buzz Kill: bees are dying and why it matters to you (SCIENCE DAILY)
Interesting roundup from Science Over Everything: As long as they have existed, bees have been an important and integral part of the Earth’s ecosystem; they help flowering plants reproduce and...
Answering Common Questions About Bee Pollen: Part 1
It's no secret that bees are an indispensable component of our ecosystem. In fact, bees pollinate more than $15 billion a year in crops in the United States. However, many...
5 Practical Tips to Help Save the Bees
Save the Bee, Save the World Our world’s food supply depends on honey bees. One of every three bites of our food originates from bees pollinating the flowers that produce...
Saving the Bees: Honey Bee Populations on the Rise
We need honey bees! Declining bee populations affect the environment and agriculture—in the U.S., one out of every three bites of food depends on bees. Without honey bees we risk...
5 Foods you Didn’t Know Were Pollinated by Bees
Pollination is necessary for flowers to develop seeds. It’s the process of transferring pollen from the stamen (male part) of a flower to its stigma (female part). Most plants are...
Do Honey Bees compete with Native Bees?
Honey Bees were brought from Europe to North America in the 1600’s and quickly became the most important food pollinators, responsible for the pollination of over 70% of the world’s...
Boxes and Blossoms – Packages of Bees inspire backyard creativity
reBees make more than honey—they help plants develop seeds. Fruits and vegetables need pollination--honey bees are the perfect workers for the job! If you recently picked up your packages of...
Plant these to SAVE the BEES
Why do we need to save the bees? In the 1980’s honey bees began to die off at alarming rates. Scientists diagnosed this tragic phenomenon as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)....
How To Winterize Your Hives [Part 2]
In part one of our continuing series on wintering your hives, we discussed treatment for mites and hive strength. In Part Two we'll be covering best practices for winter feeding...