If you observe these simple techniques for honey storage, you might never find yourself without a jar of the sweet stuff.

What and how to feed chickens varies with a bird’s age, the season and type of chicken. Here are basic items to consider for your flock’s feeding system.

In many parts of the U.S., you still have time to grow buckwheat, a wonderful crop to benefit your garden, yourself and your bees.

A few relatively easy chores now can set the stage for your bees’ success in the seasons to come. Here are basic fall maintenance tasks.

Hummingbirds travel thousands of miles per year, lay tiny eggs and have stunning wing speed. Here’s how to attract these pollinators and help researchers who study them.

As summer departs and autumn arrives, observe your colonies and ask these questions to give them the best chance of surviving winter.

Far more than just the nocturnal cousin to the lovely butterfly, moths are beautiful, important contributors to the ecosystem.

Does the female praying mantis bite off its mate’s head? Are some of them pink? What do they eat?

Hornets are not aggressive unless provoked, but they are big and have dangerous stings. They also love honey and cause trouble for bees.

In the second part of this series, we continue alphabetically through chicken ailments, covering dehydration, egg binding and egg eating.