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A honeybee pollinating delicate pink and white spring blossoms on a tree branch

Bees and the Economy, What You Should Know

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that honeybees pollinate up to 80 percent of the country's insect crops—meaning bees pollinate over $15 billion worth of crops each year. 

Bees and the Economy, What You Should Know

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that honeybees pollinate up to 80 percent of the country's insect crops—meaning bees pollinate over $15 billion worth of crops each year. 

A wooden bee hotel filled with hollow stems and tubes, nestled among orange daylilies and greenery

Make a Solitary Bee Happy and Make a Bee Hotel

While honeybees make honey, there are many types of beneficial bees that do not.

Make a Solitary Bee Happy and Make a Bee Hotel

While honeybees make honey, there are many types of beneficial bees that do not.

Close-up of a honeybee emerging from honeycomb cells

How Does Bee Propolis Benefit the Skin?

Bees produce a compound called propolis from the sap on needle-leaved trees or evergreens. When they combine the sap with their own discharges and beeswax, they create a sticky, greenish-brown...

How Does Bee Propolis Benefit the Skin?

Bees produce a compound called propolis from the sap on needle-leaved trees or evergreens. When they combine the sap with their own discharges and beeswax, they create a sticky, greenish-brown...

Close-up of a honeybee collecting pollen from a fluffy pink mimosa flower

Bees Have a Serious Sense of Smell

Bees communicate with their hive via their sense of smell.

Bees Have a Serious Sense of Smell

Bees communicate with their hive via their sense of smell.

Beekeeper in protective gear inspecting a frame covered in honeybees and honeycomb

About Honey

This is a post about honey

About Honey

This is a post about honey

  • Bee with golden speckled body and striped wings nestled among soft pink flower petals

    Smell This!

    Did you know that each little bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.

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  • Honeycomb frame filled with bees, orange capped cells and golden insects in a wooden hive outdoors

    Hey Honey!

    While many believe that honey is just a by-product of honey bees daily work, in reality bees need it themselves to survive. Honey bees must consume about 17-20 pounds of honey before they can biochemically produce one pound of beeswax. 

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  • Bee on pink wildflowers with soft blurred background and warm sunlight glow in a spring garden

    Lotta Bees

    It takes 556 bees to make one pound of honey. Meanwhile annual honey consumption in the US alone is 450 million pounds. Do the math ~ that’s a lot of bees

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