Urban beekeeping is increasing fast, but too many honeybee hives can reduce food, spread disease, and harm wild bees.

Just as livestock farmers must manage herd health and nutrition, so must beekeepers nurture their bees to keep them in top ...

Learn how to transcribe our Bumblebee Projects with this video and you'll help the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and Department of Entomology make this information more ...

Discover how Wild Honey Box grew from backyard beekeeping into one of Texas’ largest honey operations, producing raw local honey while prioritizing bee health, family values and Texas agriculture.

As cities grow and natural habitats shrink, urban wildlife must adapt to rapidly changing environments. A new study published in Insect Science shows that the guts of urban-dwelling wild bees contain ...

There are between 115,000 and 125,000 beekeepers in the U.S. during any given year. According to the National Honey Board, most of these keep less than 25 hives as a hobby. Commercial beekeepers ...

When people think of honey bees, they often think of classic wooden hives, in which beekeepers are having to breed more and more bees just to keep managed populations stable. These man-made boxes, ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. It’s a workout in what feels like a sauna as the ...