Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jessy O'Keefe waved the smoker around as she prepared to inspect the hive, one of nearly half-dozen stored in the backyard of the ...

Santa Rosa 9-year-old Nicholas Bard is a walking encyclopedia of honeybee facts. A colony needs 30 to 60 pounds of honey to survive each winter. The average lifespan of bees is about two weeks. And ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Backyard beekeepers play a critical role in maintaining a thriving pollinator population, and two Mississippi State scientists in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, ...

A warm, dry winter in Denver is stressing bee colonies, causing food shortages and hive losses. Beekeepers are closely ...

What started as a niche class for Central Texas hobbyists has grown into a statewide movement to support and educate a new generation of beekeepers. With backyard hives on the rise and a growing need ...

Backyard Beekeepers are installing their hives in increasing numbers this year, right in town and all around Sonoma County. Already, reservations have been made for double the amount of bees and hives ...

LAKE RIDGE, Va. (7News) — Honeybees first arrived to what is now Virginia in 1622. A shipment from England brought these super pollinators to the United States and now, 400 years later, there are more ...

Backyard beekeeping is growing in popularity in Santa Monica, but Vilma Zenelaj, a fourth generation beekeeper from Albania, was way ahead of the buzz. Zenelaj has been beekeeping for years and ...

Jessy O'Keefe waved the smoker around as she prepared to inspect the hive, one of nearly half-dozen stored in the backyard of the house near Wilmington's Bradley Creek. "It redirects their focus and ...