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 ...

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

How much honey does a bee colony produce ... the number and kind of bees in the hive, according to the Italian Journal of Animal Science. "The behavior of bees and therefore their productivity ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 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 ...