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 ...

She said the pillars and the honeycomb itself, unlike the honeycombs found in the U.S., aren’t made just of wax. Instead, the bees will collect tree resin in addition to pollen and bring those ...