During the winter months, honeybee colonies face their most challenging period of survival. The combination of cold temperatures, limited food resources, and the need to conserve energy puts hives at ...
The Sunshine State’s warm winter temperatures keep the bees active, allowing them to continue to forage. So-called “migratory beekeepers” rely on this three-month sojourn to build up their colonies’ ...
Where do they go? How do they survive winter – or do they survive at all? The answer varies and actually depends on the bees’ social lives. From social honeybees to solitary carpenter bees, the way ...
Anna King / Northwest News Network New research out of Washington State University shows colonies of Northwest bees that fly in warm fall and winter weather are dying more quickly than they used to.
For Lazarus Fields, there’s always something new to learn about bees. “Every hive has their own little temperament,” he said, standing in a buzzing backyard on the northeast border of Colorado Springs ...
An estimated 40,000 bees have created quite a buzz at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The bees – rescued from one home in Naperville and another in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood – are now nestled in the ...
When people learn I am a beekeeper, they often ask, “What do you do with your bees in the winter?” After 20 years of beekeeping in Fairbanks, Alaska, I have learned that honeybees can survive below ...
Tune in to FOX 10 Phoenix for the latest news: MESA, Ariz. - Arizona's wet winter may have been a bittersweet one for the honey bee population, according to an Arizona State University researcher.
"They disappeared, dwindling from big boxes full of bees last fall," said Bauer, who specializes in small batch all-natural wildflower honey, and started beekeeping in 2017 with no prior experience.
Entering this spring, beekeepers will be tasked with rebounding from the worst winter in over a decade for winter bee ...
Park County beekeeper Andrew Bauer, a ranch worker and owner of Hazel’s Honey LLC, a family-owned Paradise Valley apiary, is willing his small business back to life after the worst winter bee losses ...