Complicating the situation, beekeepers are trying to work within a large-scale agricultural system, using an insect whose husbandry practices have changed little since the nineteenth century. The ...

Entering this spring, beekeepers will be tasked with rebounding from the worst winter in over a decade for winter bee mortality. A nonprofit organization, called Project Apis m., surveyed more than ...

Beekeeper Wes Hull points a smoker toward one of his hives, calming the bees inside by disrupting the pheromones they use to communicate. (Noah Wicks photo) A new report from the California State ...

(WKBN) — Two years ago, local hobbyist beekeeper Brian Koper had 21 colonies. Now, he’s left with just three. Koper recently put out a post on his social media page, asking his beekeeping friends if ...

An unprecedented loss of honeybees over the winter has put staple crops at risk in the coming season. The uncertain cause of this mass die-off has left beekeepers and farmers bewildered and facing a ...

A review paper draws on scientific studies to recommend ways to reduce honeybee disease impacts, such as limiting the mixing of bees between colonies and supporting natural bee behaviors that provide ...

OLYMPIC — A Senate bill that would ban Washington residents from applying neonicotinoid pesticides is a “feel-good stunt” and likely would hurt pollinators, a commercial beekeeper said Feb. 23. Under ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A commercial beekeeping supply business has opened in far southwestern North Dakota that will serve people in three of the top five honey producing states in the country. State ...

How do you vaccinate a honeybee? And will beekeepers care enough to do it? Those are the questions Annette Kleiser has been wrestling since founding Dalan Animal Health in 2018. Five years after ...