As Australian Pollinator Week (8–16 November) gets underway, new research has found that many Australians have poor awareness ...

Build a winter garden that nourishes bees, birds, and butterflies, providing flowers, shelters, and water, while engaging ...

A new native bee species with tiny devil-like "horns" named Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer has been discovered in Western ...

The discovery of a horned native bee that pollinates a rare plant highlights how little we know about Australian pollinators.

Scientific name of bee is Apis mellifera (Western Honey Bee), part of the Apidae family. Bees are crucial pollinators, adding $18 billion to US agriculture annually. There are over 20,000 species; key ...

Studying the ways that magenta and yellow flowers intermingle paints a vibrant picture of how the plants exchange genetic ...

A new native bee species with tiny devil-like "horns" named Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer has been discovered in Western ...

Speech by Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, at the Beekeeping Awareness Field Day, Oude Raapkraal, West Lake, Cape Town. Chairperson of the South African Bee Industry (SA ...

We live in a crowdsourced world, from movie reviews to online encyclopedias. Citizen science turns your love of the outdoors ...

A troubling invasive species has made its way to Northern Ireland: the Asian hornet. For the first time, the Asian hornet was ...

Kathy Byrnes and Ed Fallon, of Birds & Bees Urban Farm in Des Moines, have been pushing for a city-led community orchard for years, as step toward their dream for Des Moines to be the “local food ...

South Africa is positioning its honey industry for expansion into international export markets, with Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen confirming that work is under way to meet the EU’s honey ...