From left, Francisco López Jiménez, Orit Peleg and graduate student Richard Terrile inspect the honeycomb in a bee hive. On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz ...

Honeybees are nature’s tiny workers. Their fuzzy yellow and black striped bodies buzz between flowers, picking up pollen for their hives. They’re renowned for making honeycomb, a mass of hexagonal ...

Lifting up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you’re getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a few thousand pollinators. The unit — dubbed a BeeHome — is an industrial ...

There are between 115,000 and 125,000 beekeepers in the U.S. during any given year. According to the National Honey Board, most of these keep less than 25 hives as a hobby. Commercial beekeepers ...

North Dakota is the top honey producing state in the country, and nearby states are also leaders in the industry. Beekeeping isn't just a big commercial operation, though, and many smaller-scale ...