During a cool fall sunset in North Dakota, forklifts buzz around the base of a flatbed trailer, loading pallets. Their cargo, multicolored boxes that look like filing cabinets, buzzes, too. Each box ...

Are the beekeepers not wearing a veil to protect their eyes as we’ve always been trained? You need to remember if you get stung in the eye, you will probably lose sight, and I do know of a man earlier ...

A common question is what do the bees do in this cold, icy weather? For the last several thousand years, bees have evolved to ...

OGDEN, Utah — This year’s winter did wonders for parts of the state in desperate need of water, but many beehives and their keepers are scrambling to make do with the now short season. “If we didn’t ...

On a 22-degree day in mid-March, Anchorage backyard beekeeper Tim Huffman dusted 2 inches of fresh snow from his outdoor beehive boxes. He unfastened the ratchet straps securing a box to its wooden ...

In this video, Bee expert Peter and I inspect our new bee hive for the second time since getting them and we catch the queen ...

An estimated 40,000 bees have created quite a buzz at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The bees – rescued from one home in Naperville and another in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood – are now nestled in the ...

Now that the “frost is on the pumpkin” and everywhere else too, we wonder where the honeybees will go when the weather becomes bitter cold. There are many types of bees and different kinds of bees ...

When people learn I am a beekeeper, they often ask, “What do you do with your bees in the winter?” After 20 years of beekeeping in Fairbanks, Alaska, I have learned that honeybees can survive below ...