Apiculture News

Smartphones may be smart, but the way we use them is still a little dumb. It's time for a mobile code of ethics.

In 2005, Minnesota was the sixth largest honey producer in the nation. But since 2006, millions of bee colonies have died off in Minnesota and across the nation.

Quite a "buzz" in Central PA today. People came to Union County from all over the country for honey bees! Today was "Bee Day" at a farm near Lewisburg, where people could buy honey bees in bulk to start their own bee hives.

SIFF has a dozen or so movies about food, or farming, or fruit, or wine, etc. this year, and of the ones that we were able to screen by press time, we REALLY liked four .

Got bees? Managers for the Portland Center for the Performing Arts discovered a hive of about 2,500 honeybees clinging to the building's south outside wall Thursday.

No, this isn't a computer-generated image, but rather a real room that's filled with bees.

THEATR na nA'g presents We Need Bees, a wonderfully imagined story about Bertie Bee, at The Courtyard on Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26.

Over the last 30 years, the use of pesticides has spiked around the world. People now pour 2.5 million tons of these chemicals into the environment annually, contributing to a $35 billion industry run by global corporations.

Not only will Bee competitors be tested on spelling, but they'll also be tested on vocabulary in changes announced Tuesday.

Pierre Faure, a Manitoba beekeeper, stands next to his remaining beehives after losing millions of bees this year.

It is not a fire or an earthquake. It makes no noise, and you can notice it only close-up. I live on a horse farm in Germany, surrounded by fields and orchards, the nearest village a kilometer away.

The old saying, "Busy as a Bee" comes from the fact that bees pollinate at least 70% of our crops, which is 1 out of 3 bites of food that we eat - encompassing at least 95 varieties of crops.

Learn about bees and bee-keeping Saturday with 'Sweet as Honey,' the Back to Your Roots program at Burnside Plantation.

Exposure to low but constant concentrations of these substances -- which are highly soluble in water -- has lethal effects on these aquatic organisms.

When you picture hotels with apiaries , the image probably conjures up a property set on a bucolic patch of land in the country somewhere, but W Austin is proving that bees can thrive in an urban environment as well.

It is no secret in the newsroom that I am a bee geek . One of a series of unofficial awards festooning my cubelet is a sign bearing the title "bee whisperer." And if nothing else, all the media coverage of Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder has enough people interested to question me on a regular basis.

See below for the chat box. Join us each Thursday at 3 p.m. EDT for a live conversation with leading scientists and expert reporters.

When it was revealed to us that the Tribune Cooks recipes this month were to contain a common ingredient, honey, I knew this would be a challenge.

The Oglethorpe County Cooperative Extension Office is hosting a Beekeeping Volunteer Training Workshop geared at showing how to teach the skill from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. May 24 at the Extension Office.

Budding bee-lovers can get a taster of keeping a hive and do their bit for falling population thanks to taster sessions and a brand new community hive.