Recently I went on a honey value-chain outreach programme in KwaZulu-Natal, and conversations with a couple of beekeepers suggested that adulteration is not only an issue of imported products, but has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wild African bird that will famously lead people to trees filled with honeycomb seems to somehow learn the distinct whistles and calls of the human foragers who live near them. Scientists have long ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A harvest of honey from the equatorial forests of South Sudan will help its struggling poor and, through the pollination of bees, improve the nation's crop yields, those involved say. Spring ...