Bee Biology
The 3 surprising things honey bees (almost) never collect
Think all bees are vegetarians? Strange reasons some eat meat
The puzzling guide to bee cocoons & how to see them
Lickety-spit: how bees use trophallaxis to easily communicate
How honey bees build perfect & practical six-sided wax cells
Surprising ways to identify a honey bee like a pro
Why is it so difficult to breed better bees?
Baby bees are like baby gnats: full size
Sonication: why honey bees cannot buzz pollinate
All About Honey
How effective is honey for seasonal allergies?
Something sweetly strange: honey dippers & the art of dippering
13 reasons for small honey harvests (& how to improve them)
Beekeepers: this is the reason to taste your honey today
One truth about honey: it’s not made from pollen grains
Spotlight on crystallization: how to make 2-ingredient creamed honey
Crunchy honey: an innovative way to market crystallized honey
When can I harvest honey from a new hive?
Bee secrets: what happens when bees make honey?
Liquefy honey the easy way (or maybe not)
Invasive honey plants: are they good for bees?
Cemetery Honey and Creepy Angel-Topped Babies
Purple honey: the genuine thing from North Carolina
Honey’s magical power: four ways to slay microbes
The benefits of having your honey labels printed
Flowers for Bees
Flowering trees revisited: the best way to save the bees
Witch hazel: the unusual feast bees need in the off-season
No Mow May: not very useful for the best pollinator health
Peppermint won’t repel bees, but it may attract them
Tempting blue-flowered Caryopteris makes bees soar: “We want more!”
Bees and blue: beautiful blue blossoms for happy honey bees
Bee-friendly fun: how to make seed balls for your garden
Revealing photos show nectar-grubbing honey bees piercing flowers
Piggyback plant has dazzling red-orange pollen
Big-headed clover for hungry pollinators
Oregon Sunshine: shine a light on your pollinators
Common and lance-leaved plantain for bees
Lovage: how to use this all-purpose pollinator plant
Dahlias for postage, if you hurry
Figworts and their sweet surprise: a treasure trove of nectar
Apiary Creatures
The uncommonly common drone fly: A shrewd drone lookalike
Black Bears Destroy a Beeyard
Bearly there: the remains of my apiary
Tick-tock: ticks in the bee yard
Eristalis tenax: the most photographed bee in America
Who visits your bee hive at night?
Flowers are for sharing
Things you can catch in a bait hive
Mason Bees
A sign that it’s time to free your mason bee...
The best mason bee straws ever, and some alternatives
Are bamboo tubes causing mason bee Armageddon?
Six myths about mason bees
Mason bees in a honey bee hive
Mason bees actually sting, kind of
How to make an awesome nesting block
A mason bee covered in hairy-footed pollen mites
Swarming
Swarm traps can be powerful or no good at all
How to use the famous Demaree method of swarm control
Is frequent swarming disastrous for bees, or a miracle?
How to know a swarm cell from a supersedure cell
How to make a walkaway split to build more colonies
Checkerboarding: the X-files of beekeeping
Reasons why extra hive space may not reduce swarming
An open-air colony in a pear tree doesn’t survive
Will tanging bring your bees to ground?
