Sweet Harvest Foods' achievement in becoming the single largest domestic beekeeper marks a pivotal moment for U.S.

A monitoring system devised by the University of Cordoba ascertains the flowering stages of each hive, with high precision, ...

A routine inspection of the honeybee hives at JK Orchard and Farm turned to disappointment: A queen bee wandering alone in ...

Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

For Lauren Anderson, what began as a love for teaching and science has blossomed into a movement of sustainability and ...

William Robson said varroa mites can shorten the lives of queen bees to just 18 months A beekeeper has said it is more difficult to keep his hives alive because of the growing threat of deadly ...

Apiculture — the technical term for beekeeping — is a major industry across the state of North Carolina. Many counties — over ...

Monitoring honey bee hives by hand is passé. The buzz these days is about high-tech sensors inside hives. They help commercial beekeepers keep colonies healthy and allow bees to keep doing their jobs ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A honeybee hive was removed from the walls of a home. Honey bees became quite a nuisance for a homeowner in Pittsburgh, who had thousands of bees living in ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...