Individually coded honey bee workers and queen interact inside monitored colony. Credit: Adam G. Dolezal The coronavirus epidemic has certainly caused many humans to change behavior, like increasing ...

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 ...

Since 2006, honey bees have been repeatedly struck by a condition that destroys as many as 95 percent of the hives in a given area, and is thought to be killing over a third of the honey bees in the ...

Continuing their efforts to help endangered animals, Zoo Knoxville is turning their attention to honey bees and is taking steps to educate zoo visitors about their importance. “We had always really ...

With the honey bee crisis continuing, it's even more important to encourage native bees to ensure good pollination in the backyard vegetable garden and orchard. Just one hive is plenty for the average ...

Summer heat is the norm for many of us. "Hot enough for ya?" is often heard and not really meant to be a question, but more of a statement. Humans have the benefit of stepping inside and getting a ...

Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you've determined that you definitely need to requeen, read on. Buy a New Queen The first step in requeening your ...

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 ...

Sweet Harvest Foods' achievement in becoming the single largest domestic beekeeper marks a pivotal moment for U.S. agriculture at a time when domestic honey yields are declining and pollinators face ...