After installing the new queen bee, leave the hive alone for about a week. One exception: If you left the cork, plug, or cap on the cage, open the hive up in one to two days and remove it. Then ...

Beekeepers Lisa Dittfurth (left) and her husband, Russell Dittfurth, stand at Crooked Creek Honey Farm in Anna, Texas. The small-scale beekeepers and honey producers have around 45 hives on their ...

Each year, more than 2 million bee hives are required to do the job. Climate change, intensive agriculture, and the use of pesticides and fungicides in farming is ravaging the world’s bees.

Genome of the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida, Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), a worldwide parasite of social bee colonies, provides insights into detoxification and herbivory. GigaScience , 2018; DOI ...

The small hive beetle was introduced to Australia from South Africa and first recorded in 2002. Its larvae defecate in hives, eat baby bees and produce a slime which destroys bee hives. As well as ...