This project recieved funding from The National Research Foundation (South Africa), BerriesZA , the Claude Leon Foundation and the Eva Crane Trust. Next time you see a bee hovering around a fruit tree ...

The rich flavour and growing creativity of South Africa’s honey industry were on full display at the first Annual Gauteng Honey and Mead Competition, held recently at Heckers Garden Centre. The event ...

A South African subspecies of the honeybee is reportedly able to produce millions of clones of itself. According to new research published in the journal Current Biology and Proceedings of the Royal ...

Recently discovered genetic knowledge of two nuisance western honey bee subspecies will help commercial and hobby beekeepers. A new UF/IFAS study identified genetic characteristics relevant to the ...

A new way to measure how fast honey bee sperm moves will help researchers track their reproductive health. The new technique, by South Africa’s University of the Western Cape (UWC) Comparative ...

The Department of Agriculture and the South Africa Police Service have been conducting a massive fake honey crackdown in the Eastern Cape, targeting fraudulent and incorrectly labelled products.

Nov. 2 (UPI) --The west coast of South Africa was home to a honey badger-like animal 5 million years ago, according to a new study published Monday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The ...