Dean Haskin, owner of Mickle Hollow LLC works around the clock with honey bees. “I would say right now is the busiest,” said Haskin. Haskin’s bee farm currently has about 35 bee colonies — which are a ...

Honeybee queens come from the same ordinary fertilized female eggs as worker bees. So how does one bee become a queen - with ...

Honey bee colonies worldwide suffered massive losses last year, but University of Vermont researchers and international partners developed a new testing method that may lead to more disease-resistant ...

Bumblebee queens don t work nonstop. UC Riverside scientists discovered that queens take strategic reproductive breaks early in colony formation likely to conserve energy and increase the chance of ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Beekeepers report losses of over 60 percent of their colonies in Texas, devastating the population. “Big difference for this year versus years past is, it’s just so widespread.

A child’s simple curiosity about why some bees live in different-looking cells has helped crack open a layer of honey bee ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers ...

Scientists have unveiled a new food source designed to sustain honey bee colonies indefinitely without natural pollen. Published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the research from ...

Farmers who rent honeybee colonies for crop pollination are paying for a service measured in the tens of millions of flower ...