Our friends the bees have certain behaviors that are unhealthy to the hive and scary for passersby. One behavior, swarming, happens when a hive splits naturally with a group of bees following a new ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI -- An expedition to the tropical forests of Central America gave a Washtenaw County teacher a new appreciation for environmental research -- and a renewed interest in sharing that ...

“Get the queen inside your box,” says Samantha Winship, a 40-year-old beekeeper and urban farmer in Winston-Salem, N.C. Don’t be afraid if you find a mass of as many as 20,000 honeybees in a tree or ...

Beekeeping is a very rewarding hobby. Just think about all that delicious, golden honey flowing...mmm! But those of us who have been keeping bees for a while know that you eventually need to start ...

Contacts for media: Emily Gowdey-Backus, [email protected] and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944, [email protected] LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass ...

Bees that land on short, wide flowers can fly away with an upset stomach. The parasite (Crithidia bombi) is transmitted when the insects accidentally ingest contaminated bee feces, which “tends to ...

Until he participated in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., in May, Niwot’s Ben Lenger, 12, and his family didn’t realize that such competitions are virtually unknown in countries ...

Salt Lake Bees catcher Tony Sanchez still vividly recalls the day four years ago. Before his first start for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he got a lesson from veteran catcher Russell Martin on what it ...