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 ...

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 ...

“Buckingham Palace is home to four Italian honey bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) hives. The bees live on an island in the Palace gardens and forage on a wealth of nectar plants, both native and ...

Italian Honey Bees at Dominion Energy’s Black Bear Solar project in Buckingham County. (Courtesy of Dominion Energy) The hives join the roughly 200 that Burden has at 10 locations across the ...

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

The city high school's recently established Beekeeping Club has just harvested its first batch of honey ... the hives, protective clothing and the bees. He said they bought Italian bees, the ...

(Karie Angell Luc/Pioneer Press) Thomson installed the hives with Apis mellifera ligustica, Italian honey bees. “Honeybees are unique because they’re kind of like a canary in a coal mine ...

The Italian bee is easy to work with and is very productive ... a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. To make a pound of honey, a hive of bees must fly 55,000 miles. There are estimated to be ...