Apiculture News

Bees are basically the most important insect ever . Honeybees make possible roughly a third of everything we eat, and the bugs pollinate about $14 billion worth of crops and seeds in the United States each year.

We're in Tuscon for a couple of weeks. I've been joking the Arizona desert will no doubt find new ways to bite, stab, and sting me as I hike around Tuscon the next couple of weeks.

That's according to Tiramisu, the European Union sponsored program that's working with the University of Zagreb and others to find and destroy landmines At a Tiramisu meeting last month, scientists from the University of Zagreb presented their research on a specially trained colony of bees.

YouA ll remember all that fuss about bees and neonicotinoids last month. It seemed to come out of nowhere--like a flash mob.

Swarms of bees have been spotted in the Mid-Ohio Valley this spring, but this is not a problem, only part of the bees' cycle of life, say local beekeepers.

Beekeeper Don Cameron of Westham Island Apiary has all of his bees in production on this blueberry farm in Ladner.

The mother wasps, founders of the future colonies, are now busily house-hunting, town-planning, wood-pulp paper-making, or hunting for food for their first hungry infants.

Beekeeper Peter Awram tends bee hives at a blueberry farm in Pitt Meadows, BC Friday, May 18, 2013.

The West Seattle Bee Garden is officially launched! As you'll see in our video, Seattle Police motorcycle officers, the Sounders' Sound Wave musicians, City Council President Sally Clark were part of the parade bringing the bees to the garden from West Seattle Elementary at midday today - along with lots of kids, from Roxhill Elementary as well as ... (more)

In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, a scientist inspects bees during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University.

Ives, 13, received a globe from his grandparents when he was a first-grader studying in Kosice, Slovakia, where father Rob Ives worked as a manager at a U.S. Steel plant.

Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on fishing trip nearly a decade ago.

Bee swarm hotline: If you find yourself with an unwanted swarm of bees on your property -- they usually cluster in the size of a football -- you can have the swarm safely removed by calling the Bee Swarm Hotline at 720-443-2331. Read the U.S. Department of Agriculture's May 7 report on Colony Collapse Disorder: http://1.usa.gov/uUL8 Longmont's Tony ... (more)

Mark Bedillion, right, loads a box of bees into the truck of Paul Medenciy of Greene County during “Bee Pickup Day” at Bedillion Honey Farm in Hickory.

HONEY may just seem like something sweet to put on your cereal but one Dartford beekeeper knows how useful it can be in times of war.

After more than a year of discussions, the city has published a draft document outlining new rules for urban agriculture in Boston.

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 .