The Peace Bee Farmer

Honey bees are typically gentle in nature. Unless a bee is mashed, as if stepped upon by bare feet, she will not sting. Honey bees do, ho...

The beekeeping seasons change rapidly in the Mid-South, and the sight of black willow trees in bloom along sandbars of Arkansas’s Buffalo...

In the middle of the winter we often experience a short period of warm weather, a “January thaw.” During such a warm spell, bees will bre...

Honey bees are the only insect in the temperate zone that remain alive and active throughout the year. They are well-adapted to survive c...

The island of Puerto Rico has a unique and extremely valuable population of honey bees that is capable of living with the parasitic Varro...

Wubishet Adugna hosted me in his home country of Ethiopia when I travelled to Africa as a USAID-funded volunteer, charged with teaching m...

Swiss reader, Alexandra, writes a number of pertinent questions about drone bees and their role in honey bee reproduction. She asks, “How...