During a cool fall sunset in North Dakota, forklifts buzz around the base of a flatbed trailer, loading pallets. Their cargo, multicolored boxes that look like filing cabinets, buzzes, too. Each box ...
Winters can be tough on managed honey bee colonies, with beekeepers in the United States reporting that one-third of their colonies die each winter. A new study by Penn State researchers has found ...
A couple of weeks ago we enjoyed a few days of unseasonably warm weather. It was a perfect time to visit the apiaries and ...
Jenny Hubbard, president of the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary in Newtown, was concerned to hear recently that the sanctuary’s apiary with one million honey bees shrank from 17 hives to ...
The University Farm will offer its one-day “ABCs of Honey Bees” course twice on two Saturdays this winter: Feb. 17 and March 17. This four-hour course will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each ...
Anna King / Northwest News Network New research out of Washington State University shows colonies of Northwest bees that fly in warm fall and winter weather are dying more quickly than they used to.
An estimated 40,000 bees have created quite a buzz at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The bees – rescued from one home in Naperville and another in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood – are now nestled in the ...
Just because it is wintertime doesn’t mean that bees, which are important pollinators for our flowers, fruits and vegetables, don’t need food. Plants and shrubs can provide pollen, nectar, or both to ...
A wet winter means more flowers, more flowers means more food for honey bees, and more food means more bees. At least in Napa. George Altobell, who has been beekeeping for three years, said that he’s ...
There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...
Q. Do bees hibernate, especially where temperatures are below freezing for extended periods? Why don’t they just freeze? A. Many bees hibernate, though some, including honeybees, do not, said Scott ...
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