Beekeeping is a very rewarding hobby. Just think about all that delicious, golden honey flowing...mmm! But those of us who have been keeping bees for a while know that you eventually need to start ...
This is a robotic beehive with an efficiency that no human beekeeper could match. The machine scans stacks of honeycombs one by one, inspecting them for disease, monitoring for pesticides, and reports ...
Our friends the bees have certain behaviors that are unhealthy to the hive and scary for passersby. One behavior, swarming, happens when a hive splits naturally with a group of bees following a new ...
Bees are a crucial part of the world’s food production, and keeping them can be a complex, interesting and rewarding hobby. Watching bees busily combing flowers and plants for pollen to convert to ...
CARLINVILLE — Blackburn College’s five-year-old Bee Program is expanding the number of active hives to 20, caring for a little under a million pollinators. Led by Biology Department Chair Dr. James ...
The 150-mph winds and 13-foot storm surge generated by Hurricane Ian have long receded since the storm made landfall in Florida over a year ago. But beekeepers Michael and Tammy Sadler have spent the ...