Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you've determined that you definitely need to requeen, read on. Buy a New Queen The first step in requeening your ...

Last week’s column (March 22, AJ’s Gardening for You) briefly explored the critical importance of honey bees to the foods we rely on for healthy and varied nourishment. Honey bees are the link between ...

In the intricate world of honeybee colonies, the survival of the hive hinges on the health and productivity of the queen bee.

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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 ...

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 ...

Our August 2016 issue features a guide to homesteading, including hydroponics, foraging, composting, bee keeping, alpaca herding, and a myriad of other ways to get your hands good and dirty. Maybe the ...

The hives of honeybees show a division of labor that, as suggested by a perspective in the latest issue of Science, the powers that be in Brave New World would be proud of. Young workers service the ...

Wild queen bumblebees get killed by worker bees inside commercial hives after they are lured in by vibrant colors and the promise of usurping the resident queen. When you purchase through links on our ...

Cloying sentimentality gets a big welcoming hug in “Queen Bees,” a film about a finding new friends and new loves in what we have come to call the golden years, even if there isn’t much golden about ...