Just how many reside here is conjecture, but a nest several years old this size may hold some 20,000 Mexican honey wasps.

Social wasps such as the hornets and yellow-jackets live in colonies similar to those of honey bees and ants Yellow-jackets (Vespula vulgaris) are the size of honey bees, with black and bright ...

Our close relationship with bees dates back thousands of years and for good reason. These little miracle workers are a vital part of the environment and the food chain. Today the humble honey bee ...

Last August, the Mexican Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held its second ... “When we first learned about them, we wondered how we didn’t know before about the bees, the medicinal ...

Rio Grande Valley beekeepers are feeling the sting as they try to stay in business after several factors are rising prices in ...

Wasps have generally earned themselves a bad reputation. But despite their occasional aggression, these insects play an important role in the ecosystem. There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in ...

How hard can it ‘bee’ to look after pollinators? Bees are amazing creatures. Not only do they make tasty honey, but they are also involved in pollinating lots of our food and wild flowers.

But Russian bees are more resistant to it, and backyard beekeepers have had success with them. The problem, says Tarpy, is that Russian honeybees don’t make as much honey as their Italian ...

These included more efficient handling of the bees and techniques for extracting honey. Desertification and land degradation are major environmental issues faced in the Gambia. Through a flagship ...

We take a look at the last few weeks of the summer season for wasps — which, for almost all of them, is also the last few weeks of their lives. The wind has started howling, the mercury has plunged ...

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Just like people confronted with a sea of options at the grocery store, bees foraging in meadows encounter many different flowers at once. They must decide which ones to visit for food ...