My husband David’s favorite dinner-party story tells of our first bee expedition. Friends from Maple City, the story goes, had offered us three hives abandoned on their farm by a beekeeper-turned-monk ...

“Honey is a great incentive,” says Christine Webster, founder of The People’s Bees, which aims to connect people with bees and the natural world through apiculture (beekeeping), education and advocacy ...

Mayra Bahena had always been told to try to stay away from bees. But then the Westminster High junior found herself head-to-toe in a white beekeeping suit, accepting thousands of bees on behalf of her ...

Visitors to the Garden of Eve organic farm in Riverhead will have a sweeter time than usual on July 24, as the third annual Honeybee Festival offers honey tasting and honey hayrides that take riders ...

Gene Robinson is a honeybee biologist in the Department of Entomology, and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The Lives of ...