During a cool fall sunset in North Dakota, forklifts buzz around the base of a flatbed trailer, loading pallets. Their cargo, multicolored boxes that look like filing cabinets, buzzes, too. Each box ...

Are the beekeepers not wearing a veil to protect their eyes as we’ve always been trained? You need to remember if you get stung in the eye, you will probably lose sight, and I do know of a man earlier ...

Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...

The bees are working very hard to collect all of the pollen they can. Nectar is very scarce at this time of the year, and the pollen will be one of their winter’s food sources. The collection of fall ...

Beekeepers on Prince Edward Island are sharing concerns about the bee population, as the hives struggle through changing ...

OGDEN, Utah — This year’s winter did wonders for parts of the state in desperate need of water, but many beehives and their keepers are scrambling to make do with the now short season. “If we didn’t ...

When people learn I am a beekeeper, they often ask, “What do you do with your bees in the winter?” After 20 years of beekeeping in Fairbanks, Alaska, I have learned that honeybees can survive below ...

Now that the “frost is on the pumpkin” and everywhere else too, we wonder where the honeybees will go when the weather becomes bitter cold. There are many types of bees and different kinds of bees ...