Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you've determined that you definitely need to requeen, read on. Buy a New Queen The first step in requeening your ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

In this video, Bee expert Peter and I inspect our new bee hive for the second time since getting them and we catch the queen ...

A close-up of the most common honey bee worldwide, Apis mellifera. Honey bees have been having a tough time lately. Pests and disease have plagued many hives, killing off the pollinators and forcing ...

When I want something sweet, I pull out a jar of honey made by my bee friends at Washington State University. I talked about your question with one of the insect scientists there, Rae Olsson. They ...

The queen honey bee is genetically identical to the workers in her hive, but she lives 10 times longer and -- unlike her sterile sisters -- remains reproductively viable throughout life. A study sheds ...

Queen bees convey honest signals to worker bees about their reproductive status and quality, according to an international team of researchers, who say their findings may help to explain why honey bee ...