Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you've determined that you definitely need to requeen, read on. Buy a New Queen The first step in requeening your ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With anywhere from around 20,000 to 80,000 residents, depending on the season, honey bee colonies are busy places. One queen bee commands a ...

Monitoring honey bee hives by hand is passé. The buzz these days is about high-tech sensors inside hives. They help commercial beekeepers keep colonies healthy and allow bees to keep doing their jobs ...

Sweet Harvest Foods' achievement in becoming the single largest domestic beekeeper marks a pivotal moment for U.S.

The late-summer bloom of heather in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland coats the range in lovely purple flowers. Beekeepers ...

A monitoring system devised by the University of Cordoba ascertains the flowering stages of each hive, with high precision, ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

Honey bees are twice as likely to let in a trespassing insect from another hive if that insect is infected with a deadly virus, according to new research. Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) is a ...

Individually coded honey bee workers and queen interact inside monitored colony. Credit: Adam G. Dolezal The coronavirus epidemic has certainly caused many humans to change behavior, like increasing ...