On an afternoon in late summer, the bees that live at a Long Beach mall were flying high, winging their way back to their hives atop a parking garage. Upon their return, they emptied the “pollen pants ...
Bee School, according to ECBA’s Bee School Committee member Marc Fournier, provides students with the knowledge and skills ...
Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...
North Dakota is the top honey producing state in the country, and nearby states are also leaders in the industry. Beekeeping isn't just a big commercial operation, though, and many smaller-scale ...
Keeping a hive of bees can be an educational family activity as well as providing honey for your table and pollination for your garden and flowering plants. Most city ordinances allow up to two bee ...
When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...
This Saturday the Fall Garden and Produce Market welcomes Cripple Creek Farms Honey who will have an observation hive on display. Visitors can learn about the display and the Italian honeybees that ...
Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat. However, bees aren’t too keen on invaders, and they have ways of dealing with ...
Extreme heat can overcome honeybees’ ability to regulate the temperature in their hives, which can threaten young bees and ...