While it is important to do regular inspections of your bee hives, you can also learn a lot about the state of the colony just by sitting and closely observing the front of the hive and entrance.

Raina Singhvi Jain is allergic to honeybees. Just one sting on her foot once rendered her out of commission for weeks. But that has not deterred the 20-year-old social entrepreneur from her mission to ...

Most stingless bee keepers are not after honey. Rather, they enjoy the sense of conserving a native species whose original habitat is being increasingly cleared and developed. In return, the bees ...

Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow in trespassers from other hives if the intruders are infected with the Israeli acute paralysis virus, a deadly pathogen of bees, ...

Q: This spring, bees swarmed to my oak tree and moved into a hole in a limb. We don't want to hurt the bees, but my gardener told us that the bees will cause the tree to decay. On the other hand, an ...

Most stingless bee keepers are not after honey. Rather, they enjoy the sense of conserving a native species whose original habitat is being increasingly cleared and developed. In return, the bees ...