Top-bar hives are becoming increasingly popular with beekeepers as they help encourage bees to colonize in a more natural way than Langstroth beehives. The horizontal top-bar hives have bars across ...

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 ...

Eric Engman, a science teacher at Mount Vernon High School, empties a container full of Italian honey bees onto a specially built hive that is housed in the school with a port that enables the bees to ...

It’s been several years since I kept bees. I decided this year was a good time to start up the bees again. I have all of the equipment I need, including beehive boxes and the frames inside that are ...

A recent Bee Downtown honeybee hive colony installation at Microsoft’s Reston, Virginia, campus. (Courtesy Bee Downtown) After decades of decline, the U.S. honeybee population has seen a remarkable ...