In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...
This is a busy time of the year for the commercial beekeepers. The majority of the commercial beekeepers are involved in the ...
A frame is the movable part of the hive and can typically hold 2,000 to 2,500 bees. Adds Chris Hiatt, a commercial beekeeper with Hiatt Honey who is also president of the American Honey Producers ...
The world’s largest hornet, an invasive breed dubbed the “murder hornet” for its dangerous sting and ability to slaughter a honey bee hive in a matter of hours, has been declared eradicated ...
An estimated 40,000 bees have created quite a buzz at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The bees – rescued from one home in Naperville ...
Akron-Canton Airport joined a swarm of airports across the U.S. and added bee colonies. It's now selling honey at the ...
A picture shows just how high Jon Christian was off the ground on Wednesday when he hit a bee hive during a post-hurricane ... believes these weren’t European honey bees that nearly took ...
“If you didn’t have bees, you didn't have sweetness,” he ... This year, Dyer and his team harvested about 100 pounds of honey per hive, which is sold in the gift shop and worked into the ...
In 2005, Africanized honeybees (AHB) were discovered in 13 Florida counties in central and south Florida. By 2006, they had moved into three more counties, and in 2007, they were found in another ...