Today is a lovely day. The sun is shining and the temperature is in the upper sixties. Just two weeks ago the temperature was minus 10, so I...

Today was a lovely warm sunny day. It was a great day for working in the yard, not only for me, but also for the industrious creatures out ...

Today was a glorious warm sunny day - one of the best we've had so far this year. The sun was out, the temperature was warm and the w...

Honeybee - Apis melifera   photo by C. Netter Greg, the beekeeper has started a Kickstarter project to fund Bee Town USA . This will be...

Today is National Honey bee Day http://www.nationalhoneybeeday.com/

Honey bees need a good source of water. They need this for more than just hydration of themselves as individuals, they also use water for ...

Apparently pollen from Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) is particularly sticky. This poor bee is covered in it and had some trouble fly...

For almost a week the bees of hive 6 have been washboarding. Washboarding is the term used for bees rhythmically rocking back and forth in ...

This past Sunday I was out taking pictures of the sunflowers and noticed four different species of bee on this particular blossom. All bee...

It's probably only thousands of bees, but it looks like a lot to me. I just put out a fresh pan of honey comb for the bees to cle...

Continuing from the previous post ... I used to think that honey bees did the vast majority of pollination in my yard here in Jefferson Co...

I knew that there were native bees, but I didn't know there were so many native bees until Greg, of Dakota Bees , told me. There are fou...