When we first started beekeeping, my husband and I decided to try the polystyrene boxes. ... We have not had to wrap our polystyrene hives for winter as we do with our wooden hives.

A bee farmer from Armstrong, BC is experimenting with Styrofoam to help bring the temperature inside hive boxes down during extreme heat, so bees don't die.

With the hive change, she’s mastered a winter feeding schedule, and began treating her bees for mites. After that, she said she’s consistently gotten about an 80% survival rate.

Bees are incredible insects that live and die for their hive, producing rich honey in complicated hive structures. The ...

White Lake Elementary School, located about 20 miles east of Antigo, held a unique show and tell on Tuesday that’s creating a lot of buzz.

The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies,by Thomas D. Seeley (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995). Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social Life ...

The hives are managed by Gorazd Trusnovec, a 50-year-old with a graying goatee who is the founder and sole employee of an enterprise called Najemi Panj, which translates to “rent-a-hive.” ...

Emily Huxter and Dr. Alison McAfee tested how hives covered in a Styrofoam sheet (back) and fed syrup (front) managed to regulate temperatures during hot summer weather. Emily Huxter. Since then, ...