The bees enter a frenzy of fighting, and by the time their deadly combat is over, every male bee is either killed or has perished. ...
nytimes.com | Elisabeth Goodridge | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Meet the White House honeybee. Numbering more than 65,000 at one point, the bees produced a bumper crop of honey this year, the first time honey has e...
thedailygreen.com | Kim Flottum | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
There's a lot happening, Up On The Roof, these days, and keeping a few hives of bees up there fits right in....
news.nationalgeographic.com | Ker Than | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
A dark, bitter kind of honey can cripple infection-causing bacteria, including the highly virulent strain known as MRSA, and now researchers think the...
guardian.co.uk | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
How Insect Are We? is the title of the symposium that opens Pestival, a three-day festival starting today and running to 6 September to celebrate inse...
Joseph Freeman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
The dancing in the video is a nod to a ritual of the honeybees, who after returning from a particularly good round of pollinating "dance" directions to the rest of their hive.
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green
Looking at our counterparts in the developing world, we'll find that traditional methods of sowing fields and raising bees are both eco-friendly and bee-friendly.
Alex Henry | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York
Strolling down Lexington Avenue in the 80s last night, I encountered what appeared to be a crime scene.
Elizabeth O'Neill | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
A dynamic group of urban-agricultural enthusiasts gathered in New York to celebrate the fourth day of Pollinator Week 2009.
Getty/AFP | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green
NEW YORK: An urban beekeeper inspects part of her colony of Italian honeybees on the roof of her Brooklyn building May 30, 2009 in New York City. Beek...
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
A swarm of more than 1,000 bees paid visit to the Capitol complex Monday, gathering on a small tree next to the Blaisdel Building. Buildings and Grou...
CNN Political Ticker | Shawna Shepherd | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
The Secret Service is always on the alert for aerial assaults -- but on Thursday, White House grounds were hit by one unexpected airborne threat. A s...
Chelsea Green | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green
Each time I have tasted raw, local honey, I have wished that I had my own colony of bees. But I guess everything takes time and we need to pick our pa...
Reuters | Pete Harrison | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green
STRASBOURG, France - Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery "recovery zones" in Europe's farmlands to aid their survival, a lead...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
If you thought the season for debates and voting had ended, think again! Some folks over in the UK -- specifically, the EarthWatch institute -- are de...
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green
America's bee colonies are collapsing. It's a big mystery, with much at stake. Green websites like TreeHugger have been on the case since the phenom...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
Attention Span Media has released a video that takes a humorous look at the disappearing honeybee crisis. The video, Honey Bee Mystery, describes the...
The Daily Green | Kim Flottum | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green
People who keep bees commercially keep them to make a living. They take them far and near to fields and farms so the bees can pollinate the crops they...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.10.2008 | Entertainment
Basically, the bees are bailing on us. And without their powers of pollination, a wide range of crops, from almonds to zucchinis, could be about to vanish from our lives, along with the bees.
Guardian | John Sterlicchi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The collapse of US honeybee colonies this year is set to devastate America's multibillion dollar agriculture and food industries. Last year about 750...
BBC | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green