11 year old Nicholas Motz became a beekeeper at age 7, and now he owns his own honey business.
The government has decided to try to slow the spread of the varroa bee mite in the South Island rather than eradicate it.
U.S. Senator Conrad Burns wants to appropriate $5 million to use honey bees to find land mines and other buried explosives.
In a bow to Charles Darwin, wild and captive honeybees seem to be overcoming the devastating impact of parasitic mites through natural selection.
Research conducted at the ARS Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Research Unit in Baton Rough, Louisiana reveals cold temperatures, tracheal mites and varroa mites, all enduring problems for honeybees, are not as effective against Russian bees. This ability to deflect or resist gives bees native to Russia an apparent advantage.
Dr. David Inouye, director of University of Maryland’s graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology, reports that global warming could disrupt the timing of pollination in alpine environments, with serious negative impacts to both plants and pollinators.
A honeybee’s ability to smell scent appears to be linked to the right side of its brain, according to a new ANU study that could show how right and left ‘handedness’ evolved in other species.
250 new beekeepers received free hives in North Carolina last year. North Carolina agriculture is dependent on bees for pollination, and supporters said honeybees accounted for $154 million each year in added agricultural produce within the state.
A swarm of up to 100,000 angry honey bees sent 10 people to the hospital including the driver of an SUV that hit a hollow tree in northeast Indiana, disturbing a hive.
It has been known that bumblebees prefer their food warm and learn to locate hotter flowers using color as a cue, scientists say. But a study shows that this is also the case for honey bees.
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