Honey bees are truly impressive insects, playing a major role in sustaining ecosystems. These remarkable insects build perfectly structured honeycombs. Honey bees are ectothermic and must regulate the ...

We enjoy fruits and vegetables, especially from our gardens, but many of them depend on pollinators. About 75% of flowering ...

BLUE HILL, Maine (WABI) - Blue Hill Library was buzzing Saturday as the Tri-County Beekeepers Club hosted its annual Bee School, a program that has provided introductory beekeeping education since the ...

As Earth.com reports, rising temperatures and pollutants in the air affect how bees buzz. The action is a method of communication and a means of pollinating certain plants. As Charlie Woodrow, a ...

Ah, the beloved honeybee. They’re fuzzy and social. They make honey and beeswax. Children draw them and backyard beekeepers dote on them. But honeybees – brought to North America by European settlers ...

With a steady hand, 91-year-old Ray Goldwire presses a jagged knife through rows of honey-filled frames. The wax cracks as ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — With warmer weather in full swing, bee swarms are becoming a more common sight across southeastern North Carolina. But local experts say if you see a large cluster of bees on a ...

Rusty patched bumble bees lost 87% of their population over the last couple of decades nationwide — their local populations here in Evanston declined as well. Scientists and residents in the greater ...

Another easy way to keep carpenter bees away is to rub almond oil directly over surfaces because they don’t like the scent.

I have been keeping bees for about 50 years. My first instructor was an older gentleman who told me about hauling bees out of the Santa Ana Mountains in 1912 in a solid-tire truck. Now I talk to ...