The number of hives in cities keeps growing. In Paris, for example, the number of registered hives has jumped up by a factor of eight over the last decade. It’s billed as good for nature. But a recent ...

I’m just going to say it: Los Angeles is abuzz over urban beekeeping. For years the city has had a thriving underground beekeeping culture, with hives kept in backyards by Los Angelenos who want their ...

One mild day in spring, on the roof of Ballard’s Bastille Restaurant, a sweet, summery smell pulsed through the air. Was it emanating from the rooftop beehives, or from the beekeeper busily checking ...

Beekeeping is one of the most visible forms of urban agriculture. In New York City alone, there are an estimated several hundred beehives even though the city legalized beekeeping just seven years ago ...

Urban beekeepers harvesting honey from city rooftops and vacant lots are discovering something remarkable – their honey contains significantly higher levels of antimicrobial compounds than rural honey ...

From rooftops to government gardens, embassies to office buildings, if you know where to look, you'll find honey bees buzzing all over Washington, D.C. The cityscape has become a hospitable home to ...

They are easy to miss. They're just a few simple wooden boxes perched on the rooftop of the Independence Blue Cross building at 19th and Market. But they're actually the newest homes to 30,000 ...

On the grounds of CANVAS North, a Costa Mesa campus that offers an adaptable suite of creative work spaces, two tiny house-shaped boxes are abuzz with activity as tens of thousands of honeybees begin ...

A recent trend in Athens witnesses people embracing urban beekeeping to reconnect with nature and support local ecosystems. Nikos Chatzilias is one of the people who tend to buzzing bee colonies over ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- It’s no mistake, the Marriott Marquis in Downtown San Diego is playing host to bees on the roof, and it’s all for the benefit of local business. The hive highlights a growing trend ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nikos Chatzilias spends his days tending to buzzing bee colonies with a unique view out over the rooftops of Greece’s capital. He is among the dozens of Athenians who have ...