It’s a hot summer day and you’re sipping your lemonade on the porch when a honey bee lands on your cup, deciding it is a shareable beverage. Her home must be close, right? Have you considered your ...

PITTSBORO, N.C. — Beekeeping was so much simpler in 1980 when John Strickland started. One of Strickland’s rural Chatham County neighbors had bees, but the man was getting up in years. “If I ever have ...

Soccer star David Beckham has become a beekeeper. So why can’t the rest of us? The co-owner of Inter Miami CF gave a jar of homemade honey last year to King Charles, who also maintains bees on his ...

About 30% of California’s native bees live above ground. These bees nest in old trees in the wild, but in urban landscapes, a bee house can provide similar habitat. These bee houses can be made of ...

Honey bee colonies managed using organic methods were as healthy and productive as those managed in conventional systems, while avoiding the use of synthetic pesticides to control pests and pathogens ...

On a hot, pollen-dazed morning this summer, I stopped by the house of Gareth John, a retired agricultural ecologist, who lives on a quiet lane above a river in Oxfordshire, to take a look at his bees.

Apr. 6—HIGH POINT — even years ago, when Lesa Pierce decided to take up beekeeping as a hobby, she didn't realize just how hard she would be stung. Not literally, mind you — although the occasional ...