An innovative beehive design by Gaia Bees helps fight colony collapse disorder while creating habitats that more closely resemble how bees live in nature. This DIY hive may not be designed for easy ...

Tanzanian beekeepers prefer traditional log beehives to modern hanging frame beehives, says a new study. Traditional beehives have a negative impact on surrounding woodlands in the country’s semiarid ...

Watching weather forecasts for equinoctial gales at this time of year can keep Mick Verspuij very busy. The trained forester likes to look out for windfalls as in uprooted or broken trees which can be ...

Anyone who’s read The Secret Life of Bees may have thought fleetingly about setting up a backyard hive. Samantha Gordon took the plunge. Ten years later, she and her husband, Scott, have a buzzing ...

Across the Triangle in North Carolina, a region that includes Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, at least 55 residents have voluntarily devoted a section of their backyard to bees. These residents aren ...

WOODLAND, Calif. — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United States truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers who need the insects to pollinate the ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that ...