They’re tiny creatures with a big purpose, facing exponential threats. We are talking about the honey bee. At the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary in Newtown, busy bees could be heard buzzing ...

YORK, Pa. — They’re small, essential and in serious trouble. Bees, the unsung heroes of our food system, are disappearing at an alarming rate. As wild populations dwindle worldwide, a growing number ...

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 ...

Host Rachel Holt learns more about Urban beekeeping and its impacts on biodiversity.

In recent years, as urban gardening has become popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, backyard beekeeping has gained traction as well. While many people may think of beekeeping as a quirky hobby, ...

To be or not to be a beekeeper: That is the question that may be answered Jan. 18 when expert Jay Martin takes part in Backyard Brouhaha, a daylong symposium about turning your property into a habitat ...

This story appears in the August edition of TBY magazine, inserted into the Monday, Aug. 2 edition of the Southeast Missourian. Seventy-eight-year-old John Yallaly first became interested in ...

Beekeeping has always carried a quiet social value. Long before honey became a specialty product on market shelves, bees were part of the relationship between people, food, gardens, and the wider ...

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 ...

Santa Rosa has released a draft set of rules that would legalize backyard beekeeping, a proposal spurred by a young boy and his family who helped champion residents’ rights to raise bees in the city.

In Florida, you can keep bees in your backyard. That's a good thing because honey bees are vital to food and wildlife in the state. Despite threats like disease, habitat loss and queen quality issues, ...