Honeybee communication
Honeybees communicate via a two-part dance, communicating where to find food and the location of suitable home sites.
Grants and Cost-Share Opportunities for Wildflower Meadows
Are you sick of mowing your lawn? Do you own land that is just cool season grasses? Want to spend less, see more, and do better?
Plant wildflowers.
Why do Beekeepers Feed Bees Sugar Water? Isn’t that Cheating?
You may have heard or read out there that feeding sugar water to bees is bad, or you may have heard a beekeeper mentioning feeding sugar water to their bees. What is the deal with this? Aren’t bees supposed to feed themselves with flowers?
What the heck is a Varroa Mite?
At NectarShare, dealing with the mites is our biggest challenge!
Don’t Forget About Bats
Pollination doesn’t end when the sun goes down. When dusk hits, the nighttime pollinators come out.
How to plant your wildflowers
Imagine: Your yard, your garden border, your flowerbed or flowerpot. A place you claim for yourself and the pollinators. A place you plant up with delicate, colorful blooms of your own.
Learn Beekeeping While You Can
When you hear the buzzing of bees in springtime, or see a jar of honey on a shelf, do you think of a nice warm cup of tea, or do you think of TEOTWAWKI? If it’s not the second one, keep reading.