A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such ...

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 ...

As the growing your own food movement gains momentum, many people are considering keeping bees in their backyard. People who are entertaining this idea have questions about starting this endeavor. One ...

STOCKBRIDGE — When beekeeper Asher Silverwolff goes into a beehive, he doesn’t wear a suit or veil. He's fully exposed to the bees. He's listening to them and, though they don't technically have ears, ...

The bees are working very hard to collect all of the pollen they can. Nectar is very scarce at this time of the year, and the ...

“I wouldn’t say it’s a competition, but we definitely compare notes.” ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. It’s a workout in what feels like a sauna as the ...

Lauren Anderson, founder of Calm and Confidence, holds a frame full of comb and covered in honey bees. Credit: Sara Reeves As humanity continually seeks to reconnect with the rhythms of nature, one ...

A war brewed Tuesday morning. Thick smoke plumed through the air, and two men suited up into their uniform: a white jumpsuit, orange gloves and veiled hats. Their challenge? An 80-pound beehive ...

On a hot, pollen-dazed morning this summer, I stopped by the house of Gareth John, a retired agricultural ecologist, who lives on a quiet lane above a river in Oxfordshire, to take a look at his bees.

When he made one of his weekly trips to check on them, he found all but one hive box completely smashed, frames filled with wax, honey and baby bees scattered throughout a field. Piles of dead bees ...