It's possible for nearly everyone to help keep honeybees busy in their vital role as agricultural, garden and wildland ...

Think of Best Bees as the pollinator whisperers. Founded in Boston in 2010, the innovative company installs and manages beehives across the city and the country—from private rooftops to community ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that researchers are still on the lookout for things other than mites that could ...

Let's explore the major differences between queen and worker bees and why this hierarchical system is crucial to hive survival.

Part one of a two-part feature on honeybees explores existential threats they face, from climate change to mites and bears.

Purdue Bee Lab held its annual queen rearing course, teaching beekeepers how to "level up" their skills by making new queens ...

Killing the mites with pesticides is complex: The mites have grown resistant to some chemicals, so beekeepers have to routinely swap out different pesticides while trying to avoid contaminating the ...

Beewise is using AI and robotics to modernize beekeeping, offering a real-world example of how tech is solving high-stakes ...

A proposal in the California Legislature would pay for more research to save honey bees, but it could be a tough sell amid a budget deficit.

About 1.7 million honey bee colonies — nearly 60% of all such hives in the country — were lost between June 2024 and March 2025, according to survey data from the nonprofit “Project Apis m.” (Apis ...

One of Britain’s largest bee heists happened in February 2018 when 40 hives, containing millions of bees, were stolen from a family-run company, Beekeeper Honey, in Oxfordshire.

An estimated 250 million bees escaped after a truck transporting a number of bee hives rolled over Friday while travelling in Washington state, just south of the Canada-U.S. border. According to ...