When beekeepers introduced honeybees to a protected island, wild bees nearly vanished. Could removing the hives reverse the ...

has a rooftop garden where bee hives provide the restaurant's main honey supply. Are these killer bees? Hardly! The Italian honey bees are excellent pollinators and some of the easiest to work ...

When people find a swarm of bees, they often call upon Mark and Tammy Allen to come and collect them. The Allens have 15 ...

In recent months, beekeepers across the country have reported a widespread loss of bee hives and colonies around the world.

The city high school's recently established Beekeeping Club has just harvested its first batch of honey ... the hives, protective clothing and the bees. He said they bought Italian bees, the ...

The perils facing bees — not just honey bees ... is also called the European honeybee, the Italian honeybee or the western honeybee. Hives contain three types of bees: The singular ...

(Karie Angell Luc/Pioneer Press) Thomson installed the hives with Apis mellifera ligustica, Italian honey bees. “Honeybees are unique because they’re kind of like a canary in a coal mine ...

Using metal tools shaped like small crowbars, they pried frames out of the wooden hive boxes. Each frame was covered with hundreds of bees and filled with combs brimming with raw honey.