Bumblebee guards are actually pretty casual about sterile intruders. They’ll spend a little extra time examining them with ...

So, what are the new beekeepers learning about their bees? They are learning about festooning, which is when the bees are making wax and filling the hive with the essential wax needed for the hive.

It was all about the bees last week for two Park Slope residents who set up a hive on the roof of a Brooklyn brownstone, home to about 12,000 fuzzy pollinators. Early Friday morning, the beekeepers — ...

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

How in the world do bees get fat? Throughout these months bees only live approximately 45 days; however at this time of the year, the bees that are being laid need to be able to go through the winter ...

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

Standing in the hot sun with thousands of bees buzzing around him, Geoff Neale is focused and calm. Behind the veil of his bee suit, he is smiling. A beekeeper for 23 years who teaches newcomers ...

Apiculture—the technical term for beekeeping—is a major industry across the state of North Carolina. Over 80 out of the 100 ...

Last week’s column (March 22, AJ’s Gardening for You) briefly explored the critical importance of honey bees to the foods we rely on for healthy and varied nourishment. Honey bees are the link between ...

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 ...