Our friends the bees have certain behaviors that are unhealthy to the hive and scary for passersby. One behavior, swarming, happens when a hive splits naturally with a group of bees following a new ...

Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

Now is the start of the busy spring beekeeping season. The sudden sharp change in weather- from winter last week to summer this week is typical here on the mountaintop and it now requires the ...