When urbanites encounter honey bees, some run away in fear while others dream of honey. Two women are on a mission to help people feel more at ease with bees while boosting the urban ecosystem.

Urban beekeeping a growing movement. Many of these are hobbyists, operating in urban settings. There are an estimated 200 to 300 hives in New York City alone, most of them on rooftops.

You may not hear them over the sound of traffic, but bees are busy making honey across Chicago. FOX 32 follows one beekeeper ...

Urban beekeeping is not saving our precious pollinators – it’s killing them. After massive population declines, the honey bee has become a symbol of conservation.

Bees are critical to agricultural production, but beekeeping is actually increasing in cities like Los Angeles and New York City, where restrictions on the practice were recently lifted. In ...

Urban beekeepers know it’s more than just honey and money Amy Seidenwurm, pictured, and her husband, Russell Bates, are urban beekeepers who have 50,000 honeybees in the backyard of their Silver ...

About 15 years ago, honey bee populations hit an all-time low, so in 2014, former President Barack Obama launched a national strategy to protect and promote the insects.

Tom Chester tromped through his little Sunset District backyard to a green wooden crate, the contents of which were generating a low hum. Using a can stuffed with burning newspaper, he puffed a ...

He tends to about 45 different bee colonies between Seattle and Portland for a company called Alvéole, many of them in urban areas and neighborhoods. Inside the box are a series of parallel panels.

Honey bees, it turns out, are a commercially managed animal — essentially livestock, like cows — and large beekeeping operations are remarkably adept at replacing colonies that die.

John Coldwell, left, and Sarah Blackburn, right, check in on 15 hives of honey bees at the apiary in Deerfield Beach. Florida is abuzz about beekeeping. The number of Floridians who’ve started ...