In the face of colony collapse, some beekeepers are foregoing insecticides and opting instead to breed bees with ...

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

Together, in 2022, they installed rescued local hives containing 160,000 Italian honeybees. This past summer, the bees produced 13 gallons of honey for the restaurant. Having it so near means the ...

The Italian bee is easy to work with and is very productive ... A single bee produces about half a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. To make a pound of honey, a hive of bees must fly 55,000 ...

Dominion Energy’s 1.6 MW Black Bear Solar project in Buckingham County is now partnered with Mountain House Apiaries, using Italian honey bees to maintain the land around the solar arrays while ...