Quartz: Forget the plight of the polar bear for a moment and consider the coming collapse of the $30 billion honey bee economy in the US. Since ...
* Majority of EU states favour ban, but no agreement * Commission says it will impose ban anyway in coming weeks * Pesti...
Bees may seem like uninvited guests at your picnic -- but before you shoo them away from the fruit salad, think twice, as they play a critical role in making your picnic possible.
Whether your garden is a floral retreat or a source of food, you will need pollinators to ensure long-term productivity.
From her base in Portland, Maine Forbes is most likely to be found tending to the sustainable beekeeping operation Overland Apiaries, demonstrating how to install a package of honey bees, and enthusiastically sharing information with other beekeepers.
Hurricane Sandy's exacted a heavy toll on New York City, claiming lives, plunging hundreds of thousands of homes into darkness, and devastating small businesses. The damage extended to Brooklyn Grange Bees, New York City's first commercial apiary.
If you're not a huge fan of the bee, why should their rapidly reducing population matter to you? Well, if you like to eat food, you should be concerned. Besides gathering nectar to produce honey, bees pollinate agricultural crops, home gardens, orchards and wildlife habitat.
I learned the hard way that platform wedges and all manner of open-toed sexiness look sexier if the toes peeping out aren't blue and bleeding, especially the showcase toe. The VIP of the peep-toed pump toe. The toe that, as it turns out, bleeds like a head wound when hit by a hatch door.
Because he lives in a 21-story building and "bees don't like high rises too much" (too windy), Guillermo Fernandez keeps bees in a tiny public garden below Wall Street, next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
By guest blogger Heather Mattila, assistant professor of natural sciences at Wellesley College Honeybees are far and away the most important pollin...
When the early colonists brought honey bees to North America in the 1600s, the bees thrived in their new land becoming our most important pollinator of agricultural crops. But recently, their future has darkened.
INDIO, Calif. -- Killer bees have swarmed a gardener and homeowner in the Southern California desert, stinging them dozens of times. The man and woma...
Claudia started her hives with some intense training and 1,000 bees from Heifer (supplemented by Google notes from her university-going daughters), and she now has five hives but is aiming to cultivate 30.
In the last few weeks beekeepers have reported staggering losses in Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio after their hives foraged on pesticide-treated corn fields. Indiana too, two years ago. What's going on in the Corn Belt?
By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/08/2012 02:09 PM EST on LiveScience Like humans and other vertebrates, some bees are ...
Anyone who says "there's power in numbers" has clearly never been on the bad side of a Japanese hornet. These poor, unsuspecting European honey bees w...
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California scientists say they have found a possible explanation for a honey bee die-off that has decimated hives aro...
The plight of the honeybees is our plight. In much the same way as the bees are lost on their way home, we have also lost our way.
Beekeepers and environmentalists today called on EPA to remove the pesticide Clothianidin, citing a leaked EPA memo that discloses a critically flawed scientific support study.
PHOENIX (AP)-- Two women in Phoenix are in critical condition with hundreds of bee stings after a swarm attacked them while they were out for an eveni...
A disturbing trend has developed in which mainstream right-of-center pundits are regressing on issues of environmental protection.
WASHINGTON — Food prices could rise even more unless the mysterious decline in honey bees is solved, farmers and businessmen told lawmakers Thur...
