WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Employees gathered in the parking lot of Winter Haven Women's Hospital to watch as licensed beekeeper Patrick Gaudin removed a sizable hive from their property Friday morning.

EPFL researchers are developing robotic beehive frames that help locate honey stores inside of beehives over time, without ...

Since the turn of the millennium, bee colonies have been prone to disaster at alarmingly high rates in North America. This winter, commercial beekeepers were hit particularly hard by die-offs ...

While American beekeepers search for solutions, another, potentially worse threat looms: Tropilaelaps mites, which also hail ...

A mild winter is bringing out the bees. We took a look at why hives are swarming sooner than expected and how you can get them to buzz off. We took a closer look into this year's swarming season ...

As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress ...

If hive temperatures drop below 50 °F (10 °C), the bees cease buzzing and generating their own heat, and slip into a deadly state of chill coma.

This year’s winter did wonders for parts of the state in desperate need of water, but many bee hives and their keepers are scrambling to make do with the now short season.

Now the bulk of Bauer's bee business, the new hives are a lifeline. He hopes the bees will produce 30-80 pounds of honey per colony per year in 2025, if the weather is not too dry and the bees ...

Zac Browning, a major beekeeper who lives in Blackfoot, Idaho, prides himself on the care his employees give his 18,000 hives, which includes sheltering them indoors in winter.