In this insightful video, we dive into the essential practice of hive inspection for beginners, with a focus on why protecting the queen bee is absolutely vital. You'll learn the basics of hive ...

Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you've determined that you definitely need to requeen, read on. Buy a New Queen The first step in requeening your ...

Fascinating up-close footage showing how honey bees go about killing a queen bee has been scaring up a storm on social media. Earlier this month, Florida beekeeper Elisha Bixler shared a dramatic ...

Fiona Presly feels humbled to have had a relationship with the queen bee. To bee or not to bee? That is the question Fiona Presly faced last spring when she noticed a wingless queen bumblebee in her ...

A honeybee queen mates only during one brief period of her life, storing sperm in a sac inside her body for later use. But if she fails to keep that sperm viable, her colony may collapse. This “queen ...