Scientists have developed an innovative method to examine DNA traces in honey that may help with the early identification of health problems in a hive when a deadly new disease variant cuts a swathe ...

This is a robotic beehive with an efficiency that no human beekeeper could match. The machine scans stacks of honeycombs one by one, inspecting them for disease, monitoring for pesticides, and reports ...

Beekeeping is quite the rewarding hobby. There’s delicious honey and useful wax to be had, plus you get the honor of knowing that you’re helping to keep the bee population surviving and thriving. [Ben ...

Researchers have enlisted a new kind of helper to monitor the microbiomes of cities around the world: the honeybee. A recently published analysis shows that the debris which gathers at the bottom of ...

One of the largest honeybee networks in the United States is being created in California. It will combine the forces of researchers from four University of California campuses to battle declining ...

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 ...

Charles Frederick Andros began his beekeeping career in 1973 and learned the intricacies of the trade from experts at large and complex beekeeping operations in Texas, Florida and Hawaii. Charles ...