One of Pledger’s specialties is building hives and frames — what beekeepers call woodware — from cypress harvested in North ...

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 ... the United States made over 89,000 metric ...

The top cover is key to keeping the bees inside warm and alive; so please don’t move or remove it if you stumble across a ...

Their loss inspired the pair to build a floating platform for their new hives, which saved the bees during Storm Bert ... nearly a year to put in place, are made out of wooden pallets with four ...

A longtime Hinsdale resident is helping to create a bigger buzz about the Oak Brook Park District’s bee apiary at the Dean Nature Sanctuary. Dale Kleber’s interest in honey bees began about 15 ...

This is a busy time of the year for the commercial beekeepers. The majority of the commercial beekeepers are involved in the ...