There are between 115,000 and 125,000 beekeepers in the U.S. during any given year. According to the National Honey Board, most of these keep less than 25 hives as a hobby. Commercial beekeepers ...

With USU Extension Director for County Operations and Agriculture and Natural Resources faculty Andree' Walker Bravo. Beginning beekeeping can be an intimidating task. Andree' is here to teach us how ...

In the course of experiments to test how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, researchers made a surprising discovery: dead wild bumblebee queens in the hives, an average of 10 per ...

Coley O’Dell’s first beehive in 1997 came from capturing a swarm, but his family’s Smokey Ridge Apiaries is making it much easier for others to start beekeeping. Saturday morning, March 11, they had ...

Worldwide, there are over 20,000 bee species in seven Families. Some commonly encountered and recognizable genera in eastern North America are described below. Since 2006, when large die-offs of honey ...