H. R. Cooke picked up beekeeping as a hobby when the covid 19 pandemic started two years ago after Covid. You find yourself still with the hobby while I found myself with about 100,000 bees. And now ...

A veteran central Iowa beekeeper will offer a free, online course in beekeeping starting next month for Iowa youth between the ages of 13 and 16. Julia McGuire heads the Des Moines Backyard Beekeepers ...

The 16-year-old West Fork junior, who was awarded a beekeeping scholarship through the Iowa Honey Producers Association’s Youth Scholarship Program in 2017, harvested about 50 pounds of honey between ...

Iowa beekeepers are carefully watching the news from Oklahoma, where a swarm of feisty bees attacked a work crew earlier this month, sending seven men to the hospital. Some fear they’re so-called ...

Two North Iowa students have been awarded beekeeping scholarships from the Iowa Honey Producers Association. Collin Witte of Rockwell and Gwen Voaklander of Osage will receive a bee hive, beekeeping ...

MASON CITY, Ia. — Two weeks after the Iowa State Fair, Randy Elsbernd is extracting honey from boxes of honeycombs in his garage. “I’m not an insect fan at all,” said Randy, a 48-year-old firefighter ...

In 1996, Iowa beekeepers worked to diversify products after the frigid winter knocked out up to half of the state's bee ...

Some Iowa beekeepers make extra money by taking their bees to California for the winter to pollinate almond trees, but that work is literally drying up with the drought on the West Coast. “Some of the ...

The proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. constitution sparked contentious debates all over the country throughout the '70s and '80s, including here in Iowa. And the discussion has a renewed ...

I don't think I'd been stung by *** bee before I, but when you marry *** beekeeper, you can expect to get stung. Sharon and Doug Schmitz have had their share of bee stings, but now there's concern ...