To make good use of specialty tools, arrange a hive-building bee with like-minded friends and enough building materials for several hives. How many people dream of having a few bustling beehives in ...

There are thousands of bee species that are divided into two basic groups: honeybees, introduced to America by European colonists, and native bees. Beekeepers manage various strains of domesticated ...

Last Christmas, Mike Chandler surprised his wife with an out-of-the-ordinary gift - two beehives. He did some homework and built the top bar hives, a wooden cradlelike box design. In April, another ...

Eighty-seven people gathered at the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Museum on Saturday to learn how to keep bees.

Bees are an integral component of the ecosystem. Bees are pollinators — as are birds, bats, beetles, and butterflies — that are responsible for helping to cross-pollinate more than 30 percent of crops ...

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- On a farm on the outskirts of Frederick, Kelly Rausch and Adam Finkelstein crack open a wooden beehive whose design dates to the 19th century. Inside, they point out a superbee ...

Their busy, buzzing business partners pollinate everything from almonds in California to blueberries in Maine, so few people understand the state of American agriculture quite like Florida beekeepers.