Everyone is talking about pollinator gardens, so why are they so important? For starters, over ¾ of our food is pollinated by insects and...

India's oldest sacred book, the Rig-Veda , contains many mentions to bees and honey. This book was probably compiled between 2000 and...

Honey harvesting from beehives has been practiced in the British Isles for thousands of years. In the times before the Roman conquest of...

We know that bees were plentiful in ancient China, but there are very few mentions of them in record or folklore. The word "feng" was...

Bees and Honey in Ancient Egypt It cannot be disputed that the Ancient Egyptians attached great religious and spiritual significance to...

Have you ever wondered how beekeeping first began? When the earliest humans, living in caves, discovered that the buzzing hive of bees...

In 2022, we continued to provide environmental education to schools and nonprofits for free!

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving: a day of joy and gratitude, of celebrating what we have accomplished and giving thanks for the amazing support...

With Halloween just around the corner, now would be the perfect time to tell you all about a terrifying phenomenon spreading across the...

Considering that both wasps and bees are brightly-colored flying insects equipped with stingers, it is easy to see how they can be...

Recent research done at the Queen Mary University of London has documented what might just be the first proof of insects having the...

In May 2022, California’s Third District Court of Appeal ruled bees can be legally designated as fish. Designed to protect “native...

On Monday, June 20, 2022, Planet Bee Foundation celebrated #NationalPollinatorWeek with The GIANT Company as they unveiled two new...

A new study by researchers at the University of Bristol from the U.K. has revealed that swarming honeybees generate electrical charges...

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Blog Post #1 Follow the wild bees!  A few months ago I began the Planet Bee Foundation’s research project to Catalog Wild Bees!  My name...

You’re already a bee fan since you’ve found this blog, so I’d like to extend my appreciation to you for looking this far.  You might...

We all know that bees work hard, but what are they actually doing in there?! It may come as a surprise, but honey bees progress through...

Welcome back to another installment of “The Progression of the Hive!” This week, we will be delving into the building of beehives in the...

Beehives have been around for millenia, protecting bee colonies from the weather and other natural adversities.