After record losses last year, beekeepers report a warm winter has led to bees ‘waking up earlier’ this year ...

Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...

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 has found that using not one but ...

How in the world do bees get fat? Throughout these months, bees only live approximately 45 days; however at this time of the year, the bees that are being laid need to be able to go through the winter ...

I keep mason bees. They sleep in cardboard tubes all winter long. I worry about my little bees until I see them chew out of their nesting tubes in the spring. I talked about how mason bees and all ...

Cold snaps and varroa mites made winter tough for bees. Spring hive checks show how Delaware colonies are rebounding or ...

As temperatures begin to warm and flowers begin blooming across northeast Wisconsin, beekeepers are getting back in the hive ...

Raising honey bees in Alberta is far from a simple task, with recent years seeing more than 40 per cent of hives dying off.