To make good use of specialty tools, arrange a hive-building bee with like-minded friends and enough building materials for several hives. How many people dream of having a few bustling beehives in ...

There are thousands of bee species that are divided into two basic groups: honeybees, introduced to America by European colonists, and native bees. Beekeepers manage various strains of domesticated ...

Last Christmas, Mike Chandler surprised his wife with an out-of-the-ordinary gift - two beehives. He did some homework and built the top bar hives, a wooden cradlelike box design. In April, another ...

Their busy, buzzing business partners pollinate everything from almonds in California to blueberries in Maine, so few people understand the state of American agriculture quite like Florida beekeepers.

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- On a farm on the outskirts of Frederick, Kelly Rausch and Adam Finkelstein crack open a wooden beehive whose design dates to the 19th century. Inside, they point out a superbee ...

Eighty-seven people gathered at the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Museum on Saturday to learn how to keep bees.

My husband David’s favorite dinner-party story tells of our first bee expedition. Friends from Maple City, the story goes, had offered us three hives abandoned on their farm by a beekeeper-turned-monk ...

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 ...

Bees are an integral component of the ecosystem. Bees are pollinators — as are birds, bats, beetles, and butterflies — that are responsible for helping to cross-pollinate more than 30 percent of crops ...