During a cool fall sunset in North Dakota, forklifts buzz around the base of a flatbed trailer, loading pallets. Their cargo, multicolored boxes that look like filing cabinets, buzzes, too. Each box ...

There is a lot to learn from bees, their health and their behavior. Beekeepers consider them canaries in the coal mine for ...

Just because it is wintertime doesn’t mean that bees, which are important pollinators for our flowers, fruits and vegetables, don’t need food. Plants and shrubs can provide pollen, nectar, or both to ...

SOUTH JORDAN — After a massive fire destroyed a honey factory and left an American Fork beekeeper without a home for his bees, a local expert shared insight about how to care for bees during the ...

The change of seasons is a necessary part of ecosystem regulation. With the buzzing activities of humans and insects alike, winter gives us a chance to encourage a natural rhythm. As the first signs ...

While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees is causing native bees to disappear, the evidence doesn’t ...

Cold snaps and varroa mites made winter tough for bees. Spring hive checks show how Delaware colonies are rebounding or ...

On a 22-degree day in mid-March, Anchorage backyard beekeeper Tim Huffman dusted 2 inches of fresh snow from his outdoor beehive boxes. He unfastened the ratchet straps securing a box to its wooden ...

An estimated 40,000 bees have created quite a buzz at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The bees – rescued from one home in Naperville and another in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood – are now nestled in the ...

A Rhinelander honey farm has higher bee populations this spring than last year. Some bee losses at the farm are because of mites.