If you ever bought a bottle of vitamins, you’ve probably seen supplements touting the benefits of royal jelly—a substance worker bees secrete from their glands—on the shelf nearby. It can also be ...

A group of researchers at the University of Guelph believe they may have found the missing piece of the puzzle to producing ...

While most gardeners celebrate the honeybee and mason bee, there is a larger, fuzzier, and arguably more valiant figure buzzing through our gardens in early spring. Unlike honeybee queens, who […] ...

If you see a bumblebee buzzing around our region’s early-blooming flowers, it’s a queen. Roused by warming temperatures, she ...

There are hobby beekeepers, and there are commercial beekeepers. And then there are beekeepers that take the queen bee on vacation with them. Allan Hazel, who owns A.P.’s Back Beach Bees on Sullivan’s ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- Every hive needs its queen, and with 2.3 million honeybee hives engaged in commercial pollination and honey production in the U.S., queen breeders such as Mark Sundberg are ...

May in Indianapolis means the roar of engines at the track. But this year, there's another noise associated with the 500-mile race: the hum of thousands of bees. During the 2023 Indy 500, bees swarmed ...

Texas A&M AgriLife Research study looks at how healthy queens and drones contribute to bee colony resilience in challenging ...

This past weekend, a man hiking in the mountains of Arizona ran into a swarm of bees. He suffered more than a hundred stings.