Haroon Rasheed, founder of Bee Happy Raw Honey, promotes natural beekeeping and urban farming through community involvement ...

Bees are incredible insects that live and die for their hive, producing rich honey in complicated hive structures. The ...

For the fourth year, King of Prussia District — an organization established in 2010 by Upper Merion Township that works to ...

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Washington State University researchers are testing a new artificial food for bees that could help hives survive and thrive on nutrient-poor farmland.

Beekeepers Danny Peña and Maura tend to their rooftop hive in Park Slope, where they recently installed a colony of 12,000 honey bees. The duo is part of a growing movement of urban beekeepers in New ...

New research out of Washington State University finds honey bees are at risk for colony collapse due to longer warmer falls seasons.

When it gets colder, they cluster in the hive, huddling with other bees, eating honey reserves and shivering, which helps keep the bees warm. In the spring, the adult worker bees start flying again.

One honey bee colony — also called a hive — may have more than 50,000 bees, while bumble bee colonies usually have just a few hundred bees.

Wild honey bee colonies outnumber those managed in commercial hives.