Apiculture
Apiculture is the science of beekeeping. Humans have collected honey from wild bee hives for more than 8,000 years, as shown in Mesolithic rock paintings dating from 6000 B. C. E. By 2500 B...
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Beekeeping
Honey has been a prized commodity from ancient times. For many, it was the sole source of sugar in the diet. It was often used for religious purposes, as medicinal ointment and fermented to...
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Ambushing locals as they return home from work, Asian invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young. This horror scenario is playing out in France's beehives, where an ul...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds) goes
looking for her dead mother in the new drama, The Secret Life Of
Bees. She is joined by Alicia Keys (Smokin' Aces...
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North Dakota now is among about a dozen states where beekeepers report some of their bees are buzzing away from hives for good.Judy Carlson, the apiary inspector for the state Agriculture Departmen...
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Maryland beekeepers have lost 45 percent of their bees since last year _ but the death toll is likely attributable to weather, not a national trend of mysterious die-offs, Maryland's top bee inspec...
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Scientists looking into a mysterious ailment killing off honeybees are hoping to find answers out West, where bees are currently helping pollinate California's profitable almond crop.Beekeepers fro...
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Scientists looking into a mysterious ailment killing off honeybees are hoping to find answers out West, where bees are currently helping pollinate California's profitable almond crop.Beekeepers fro...
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Scientists investigating a mysterious ailment that has killed many of the nation's honeybees are concentrating on pesticides and microorganisms as possible causes of the disorder, and some beekeepe...
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A tiny mite that began infesting mainland honeybee populations in the 1980s showed up in Honolulu hives for the first time this month and has now been confirmed in bee colonies across Oahu.The infe...
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