During a cool fall sunset in North Dakota, forklifts buzz around the base of a flatbed trailer, loading pallets. Their cargo, multicolored boxes that look like filing cabinets, buzzes, too. Each box ...

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 ...

For Lazarus Fields, there’s always something new to learn about bees. “Every hive has their own little temperament,” he said, standing in a buzzing backyard on the northeast border of Colorado Springs ...

Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat.

"They disappeared, dwindling from big boxes full of bees last fall," said Bauer, who specializes in small batch all-natural wildflower honey, and started beekeeping in 2017 with no prior experience.

How in the world do bees get fat? Throughout these months bees only live approximately 45 days; however at this time of the year, the bees that are being laid need to be able to go through the winter ...

Hurricane Helene, which struck western North Carolina in late September 2024, caused unprecedented damage to the region’s agriculture. The storm’s torrential rains and severe flooding devastated crops ...

Lewis Tandy is an amateur beekeeper who maintains two hives behind his home in Akron. I spent a pleasant afternoon talking with him about his avocation last week. It is clear that Tandy enjoys a good ...

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 pollen will be one of their winter’s food sources. The collection of fall ...