A new book sheds light on a little-known historical figure. Mary Bumby brought European honeybees to New Zealand in 1838 and became our very first beekeeper. Doing so was no mean feat: a six month ...

The best indication that spring beekeeping season has arrived is that the days seem longer because of the time change. It’s becoming more common for beekeepers to reach out after receiving a code ...

Jenny Hubbard, president of the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary in Newtown, was concerned to hear recently that the sanctuary’s apiary with one million honey bees shrank from 17 hives ...

Beekeepers across the United States are sounding the alarm. Last year, they lost over 55% of their managed colonies – the highest loss rate recorded since tracking began in 2011.This level of loss is ...

The uncertain cause of this mass die-off has left beekeepers and farmers bewildered and facing a shortage of 300,000 to 500,000 hives, per the San Francisco Chronicle. A survey of beekeepers across ...

Park County beekeeper Andrew Bauer, a ranch worker and owner of Hazel’s Honey LLC, a family-owned Paradise Valley apiary, is willing his small business back to life after the worst winter bee ...

But months of attacks from across the nearby border had destroyed Mena’s grove, along with other farms across the north, the rocket-scorched land abandoned by people and bees alike. Since a ceas ...

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Two children and two dogs died Sunday morning in a fire in Carpentersville, Illinois, northwest of Chicago. The call for the fire came in around 9:30 a.m. The Carpentersville Fire Department said ...

A survey found that commercial beekeepers in the United States reported an average loss of 62% of their bee colonies Getty Honeybees are dying in “alarming” numbers in the United States ...

A swarm of bees on Sunday disrupted rescue efforts by Good Samaritans and firefighters at an accident scene along the Kathiani-Machakos road. The bees reportedly ran riot; indiscriminately attacking ...