North Dakota is the top honey producing state in the country, and nearby states are also leaders in the industry. Beekeeping isn't just a big commercial operation, though, and many smaller-scale ...

Bees pollinate about $15 billion worth of crops each year. Losing them is a threat to our food supply and our economy. Now one woman is creating quite a buzz – she’s the force behind a program for ...

For Lauren Anderson, what began as a love for teaching and science has blossomed into a movement of sustainability and ...

SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — The staggering decline of honey bee colonies has alarmed experts across the United States, but an unconventional apiculturist in California thinks he has found a way to save them.

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 ...

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 ...

Honey bees are under extreme pressure. Beekeepers in the US have been losing and then replacing an average of 40% of their honey bee colonies every year since 2010, a rate that is probably ...

The Charlotte Hornets might be creating a lot of buzz most nights at the Spectrum Center. But drive a few blocks uptown, and another bee hive has plans to make some noise of its own. By the end of the ...

Summer heat is the norm for many of us. "Hot enough for ya?" is often heard and not really meant to be a question, but more of a statement. Humans have the benefit of stepping inside and getting a ...

The sound of thousands of hives lining rooftops, gardens, and fields echoes in the small village of Shabshir al-Hissa in ...

In grocery aisles crowded with golden hues and vague claims, Busy Bee Raw Honey delivers on a bold promise: delicious, raw, ...

Downtown Roanoke was a-buzz with activity Monday morning. Eyes toward the sky, spectators watched as a large bee hive was cut off of the face of a building. Above the intersection of First and Kirk in ...