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 ...

Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

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 ...

There’s more than one way to save honeybees. Raina Jain has come up with two so far — and she’s still in college. While in high school, the Connecticut native became aware of how critters called ...

There are hobby beekeepers, and there are commercial beekeepers. And then there are beekeepers that take the queen bee on vacation with them. Allan Hazel, who owns A.P.’s Back Beach Bees on Sullivan’s ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A queen bee stashes all the sperm she’ll need to make a lifetime ...