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.

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 ...

Feeding established hives sugar water or high fructose corn syrup is almost never necessary—nor is feeding necessary when creating nucleus hives (nucs). In this article, I hope to convince you that ...

Viruses spread from honey bees to wild bees through shared flowers, threatening pollination and plant communities.

Sometimes it is necessary to feed honeybees through the winter which can be accomplished by several methods. That is the position we find ourselves in here on Five Feline Farm after two colonies have ...

Winter and early spring are lean times for honeybees as they emerge from their hives, where food supplies are dwindling, to forage. Adding clusters of winter-blooming plants around the yard will give ...

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 ...