The practice of beekeeping can be a difficult task, especially considering the dire state of bee populations worldwide. Over the past 30-plus years, pollinator populations have crashed worldwide due ...

On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...

Miami University researcher Alexander Zomchek is working to build a better honey bee, using “instrumental insemination” to fertilize desirable queen bees using well-groomed male bees. Believe it or ...

For 170 years, modern beehives has remained largely the same Now two beekeepers, including Winterthur's keeper, may have invented a better hive The Keeper's Hive may help prevent colony deaths, its ...

Lifting up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you’re getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a few thousand pollinators. The unit — dubbed a BeeHome — is an industrial ...

It’s perfectly legal to keep registered honeybee hives in the city, but they can’t become a nuisance to the neighbors. By Jill Terreri Ramos Q: We live in a building on the Upper West Side. Bees from ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The life of a beekeeper can be rewarding, yet challenging. Early mornings often start ...

Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs to track when they go in and out of their hives. The work, a collaboration among entomologists ...

From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...