There’s an abundance of information available about how to attract hummingbirds to your yard and feeders, but information about how to keep bees away from hummingbird feeders tends to be scarce. The ...

You can also grow specific plants to keep bees attracted to (or repelled by) a specific part of your garden instead. Sugar syrup in your hummingbird feeder is irresistible to nectar-feeding bees. Of ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — For more than 20 years, Beekeeper Bob Faulkner, owner of Syracuse Honey, has been helping people set up their own bee colonies in their backyards. “I help people get started every ...

One of the best ways to attract more hummingbirds to your yard is by hanging feeders filled with homemade nectar. The only downside is that the sugary syrup hummingbirds love also attracts bees and ...

Bees are essential insects that play a crucial role in pollination, which is vital for the reproduction of many plants and crops. These diligent pollinators help maintain a healthy ecosystem and ...

I'm frequently asked how to keep bees away. But that's often not what people really should do. Many people call all stinging insects bees, but that blurs distinctions among a number of kinds of insect ...

Santa Rosa 9-year-old Nicholas Bard is a walking encyclopedia of honeybee facts. A colony needs 30 to 60 pounds of honey to survive each winter. The average lifespan of bees is about two weeks. And ...