After an early October freeze, the flowers and plants that bees have relied on all summer for food are dead or dying and now the bees are on a "feeding frenzy." Pinky Reinsch wondered why there seemed ...

ORANGE GROVE, Texas — Michael Leidner is the owner and operator of South Texas Apiaries in Orange Grove, and has been keeping bees for ten years. Prior to February’s Big Freeze, Leidner has about 100 ...

Six years ago, Brooklyn beekeeper Cerise Mayo opened her hive and was startled to see red: Her bees were making honey the color of a cherry. As it turns out, the critters had found their way into a ...

Bees are a crucial part of the world’s food production, and keeping them can be a complex, interesting and rewarding hobby. Watching bees busily combing flowers and plants for pollen to convert to ...

The Obama administration hopes to save the bees by feeding them better. A new federal plan aims to reverse America's declining honeybee and monarch butterfly populations by making millions of acres of ...

If you've ever been on the internet, it's virtually impossible to avoid coming across some version of the ultra-cute advice suggesting you give a little spoonful of sugar water to bees who are tired.

(NAPSI)—Apples, broccoli, cherries, almonds-they all have something in common that may surprise you. Besides the fact that they may be in your kitchen right now, each one of these foods is available ...

You can also grow specific plants to keep bees attracted to (or repelled by) a specific part of your garden instead. Sugar syrup in your hummingbird feeder is irresistible to nectar-feeding bees. Of ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. As the 2013 Feeding Cities conference unfolds this week in ...