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A semitrailer carrying 408 honeybee hives tipped over on a narrow corner in a rural Texas neighborhood, and a beekeeper on the scene expects only about a quarter o…

A semitrailer with 408 honeybee hives tipped on a narrow Texas corner, freeing an estimated 24 million bees—but only a ...

From backyard hives to farm pollination, local beekeepers produce delicious local honey varieties

Beekeepers can oversee a number of hives and often catch swarms in the wild. These bees then pollinate surrounding flora and ...
AZ Central

Arizona's killer bees really do want to sting you. Why they're so violently aggressive

Africanized "killer" bees are a hybrid species known for aggressively defending their hives. Some 90%-100% of wild honey bee colonies in Arizona are Africanized. Killer bee attacks in Arizona have ...

Extreme heat is keeping bees from pollinating. Here's why that could affect your grocery bill

Honeybees spend more time cooling their hives as temperatures rise, leaving less time to pollinate the fruits, vegetables and ...
Phys.org

Honey bees are surprisingly abundant, research shows—but most are wild, not managed in hives

There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...
The Conversation

Honey bees vote to decide on nest sites – why we should listen

When people think of honey bees, they often think of classic wooden hives, in which beekeepers are having to breed more and more bees just to keep managed populations stable. These man-made boxes, ...