Beekeepers rescue bees after their hive broke open on Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento CA. ... Reproductive swarm recovery is generally done at no charge, but costs for established hives vary.

The hives will produce honey, but the company makes no claim that their observation hive will become a honey factory. Instead, this design was conceived to bring people and bees closer together.

Massachusetts has about 4,000 to 4,500 beekeepers managing 40,000 to 45,000 hives, and the number is growing. Skip to main content. Sections. ... Gadd established hives for a church and Cambridge ...

The used hive box is prepared with propolis, a sticky resin-like substance that bees naturally produce and find highly attractive. As worker bees search for a way back, they are drawn to the new ...

While properly managed colonies generally don’t pose a threat to humans in the vicinity, if problems arise it can be difficult to move an established hive, which will weigh more than 100 pounds.

If the hive is sprayed with pesticide, the homeowner is left with a mess of dead bees and poisoned honey that can attract rats, mice, roaches and neighborhood bees that will die when they eat it.

"The honey," says Brook Levan, co-founder and executive director of Sustainable Settings, "is just a byproduct of what we're keeping the bees for. We're really after the ecosystem services they ...