While we usually think of honey bees collecting nectar, an average-size colony may bring in 100 pounds of pollen in a season....

Honeybees collect multiple items and bring them back to the hive. They forage for water, nectar, pollen and propolis.

Summer has peaked. Over the next three weeks, honeybees and beekeepers will shift their focus to prepare bees for fall and winter.

In the natural world, microbes are on and in everything. On a single apple, for example, there are about 100 million bacteria.

In the recent issue of Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, a probiotic Pediococcus was found to decrease pesticide-induced adverse effect