They provide pollen for honey bees, bumblebees ... Bees with short tongues prefer shallow flowers like asters, daisies, and sunflowers. Bees with longer tongues prefer tubular flowers like ...

Oregano is an abundant source of nutrition for honeybees and other pollinators. They are easily grown from seeds sown indoors ...

My new research shows that bees, in particular, don’t really care about the landscape surrounding flower gardens. They seem to zero in on the particular types of flowers they like, no matter ...

(It is not advisable to use brown sugar as it is harder for bees to digest and don’t give bumblebees honey as this can contain pathogens ... Bees love traditional cottage garden flowers and native ...

Honey bees are an introduced species that are extremely important but they are not a native species to Canada,” said Dr. Shelley Hoover at a presentation on Pollinators on Jan. 22. It is European ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...