Honeybees stay active during winter. They form a protective ball around the queen bee. Honey provides the necessary calories needed to keep them warm ...

I keep mason bees. They sleep in cardboard tubes all winter long. I worry about my little bees until I see them chew out of their nesting tubes in the spring. I talked about how mason bees and all ...

Winters can be tough on managed honey bee colonies, with beekeepers in the United States reporting that one-third of their colonies die each winter. A new study by Penn State researchers has found ...

On a 22-degree day in mid-March, Anchorage backyard beekeeper Tim Huffman dusted 2 inches of fresh snow from his outdoor beehive boxes. He unfastened the ratchet straps securing a box to its wooden ...

SOUTH JORDAN — After a massive fire destroyed a honey factory and left an American Fork beekeeper without a home for his bees, a local expert shared insight about how to care for bees during the ...

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 ...

We just wrapped the most deadly winter on record for commercial honey bees in the U.S. They not only make honey, they also pollinate more than a hundred U.S. crops here for a total of $18 billion in ...

The famous work ethic of honey bees might spell disaster for these busy crop pollinators as the climate warms, new research indicates. Flying shortens the lives of bees, and worker honey bees will fly ...