Bee pollen is often relegated to the “health food” category of ingredients. Prized first and foremost for its nutritive qualities, and second for its actual gustatory attributes. Now don’t get us wrong. We applaud all attempts to incorporate bee pollen into your regular routine. By all mean...
Bees with barbed stingers can often sting other insects without harming themselves. Queen honeybees and bees of many other species, including bumblebees and many solitary bees, have smooth stingers and can sting mammals repeatedly. In addition to its venom, a bee produces a number of useful ...
If you really eat like a bird, you're consuming at least a quarter to half your body weight every day. Maybe more. SanderMeertins/iStock/Thinkstock A picky eater or someone who nibbles modest amounts of food at a meal is often said to "eat like a bird." In other words, the ...
‘Icicle’ is a commonly grown white radish; it grows to 4 inches long and is the quickest to mature of the white radishes. Many of the white radishes are known as “winter radishes” because they are often planted in mid or late summer, harvested in fall, and stored during winter in ...
Tip 7: Make a bee hotel to give bees more habitat Did you know that solitary bees – that’s bees that don’t live together in a big colony – are significantly better pollinators than the humble honeybee. How much better is up for debate, but at least four times better is often quo...
At this point the worker bee laboriously returns to the hive with her load. The worker bees retuning to the hive laden with nectar are often confused with other workers returning with pollen (they never do both on the same trip). Worker bees have hair-like “baskets” on their hind legs...
Smoker– A smoker is what beekeepers use to smoke the bees while you do hive maintenance. Smoke will calm the bees so that you can do what you need without getting attacked. The science is that the smoke triggers a response in bee’s to eat as much as they can in preparation for ab...
It all needs to go.Otherwise, it will be there for you when you’re feeling week and just want to give up.If you don’t have it, you won’t eat it.Donate, give away, or throw away all processed sugar from your home.That means sugary cereals (and even many of the so-called hea...
The bizarre corpse lily is an endangered plant, but it seems to be its own worst enemy. The flowers are single sex and must be cross-pollinated to produce seeds, but female flowers are rare and don't often bloom in the same area or at the same time as the male flowers. ...
Bees rely on summer's honey production to keep them fed through the winter. So the males, having served their purpose, are left to starve or freeze outside, their corpses often found lying en masse on the ground just outside their home. The First Three Weeks of a Worker Bee's Life ...