Beekeeping, also known as apiculture, is the practice of managing honeybee colonies for various purposes, such as honey ...

Honey production is a result of meticulous teamwork within a hive, where each bee plays a vital role in converting nectar into the golden liquid prized worldwide. For a single teaspoon of honey ...

They collect nectar and pollen from flowers to make honey. They also build the honeycomb inside the hive, where the honey is stored. William Whiskerson: Those bees have got really big eyes.

To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single collecting trip, a worker will visit between 50 and 100 flowers. She will return to the hive ...

Once pieces of the hive are severed ... $80 a pound—roughly six times the price of regular Nepali honey. Himalayan honeybees make several types of honey depending on the season and the elevation ...

Beekeepers in South Australia are seeing less than 10 per cent of their annual honey production this season as drought strips ...

Loss of natural habitat is taking a toll on honey bees, warns a local producer. Honey production dropped 20 per cent in the ...

But my human friends gobble up the honey made by the Washington State University bees. I asked my friend Rae Olsson why bees make that sticky stuff in the first place. Olsson is an insect scientist.