There is more that goes into to your jar of honey than you think. At the beginning of October, the CU Denver Bee Project went through the...

Pollen provides essential nutrients for a honey bee colony. To ensure these nutrients are available, honey bees will collect roughly 57...

Seeing honey sticks while standing at a grocer’s checkout line always makes my day a bit better. These natural sweet snacks display the...

Stingless bees (Meliponini) have been ecologically, economically, and culturally important throughout the Western Hemisphere {1}. For...

From left to right: Bee on Stinking Chamomile, Fleabane, Colorado Columbine, Field of ornamental flowers Spring is around the corner, and...

Carl Linnaeus first described six species of the Bombus genus in 1758 and these beautiful creatures have captivated our attention ever...

Ever wonder what it’s like to live as a honey bee? For me, I imagined it as time spent snacking on homemade honey (even if it means to...

Hello all, I have been on an extensive research session studying so much over the last couple of weeks that I am on a brain overload. I...

At the beginning of this journey I have a lot of questions. What are native plants to the Front Range of Colorado and what are the native...

My whole life I have loved to watch bees. I remember watching PBS as a kid and learning about the honey bee waggle dance and bee...

Today we sold our first set of bees! Our hives have been doing great and we have had to slit several of them. We only lost about 20% of...

Dr. B has been fighting to keep up with the swarms from our bursting hives. Over the last week she has had a swarm a day. This is swarm...