STARKVILLE, Miss.—Backyard beekeepers play a critical role in maintaining a thriving pollinator population, and two Mississippi State scientists in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, ...

In recent years, as urban gardening has become popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, backyard beekeeping has gained traction as well. While many people may think of beekeeping as a quirky hobby, ...

What started as a niche class for Central Texas hobbyists has grown into a statewide movement to support and educate a new generation of beekeepers. With backyard hives on the rise and a growing need ...

Beekeeping has become a steadily growing hobby. Between the promise of sweet, golden honey and the critical role bees play in our ecosystem, there is a lot of reward that can come from starting your ...

Honeybees sometimes enter the hive on the fly, instead of more pedestrian means, crawling in. The airborne bees zip in the narrow entrance, their bodies and wings all but without clearance. Scout bees ...

In Florida, you can keep bees in your backyard. That's a good thing because honey bees are vital to food and wildlife in the state. Despite threats like disease, habitat loss and queen quality issues, ...

Santa Rosa 9-year-old Nicholas Bard is a walking encyclopedia of honeybee facts. A colony needs 30 to 60 pounds of honey to survive each winter. The average lifespan of bees is about two weeks. And ...