Honey bee populations are again declining, threatening crops. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dave Hunter, who raises the unsung hero of the orchard (and champion pollinator), the Mason bee.

Pinned up on one of the walls in Paddy Gorman’s farm workshop near Kilmessan is his favourite saying. It’s a message, written ...

“The tariff game seems to go on and off and change almost on a daily basis,” said Simon Lalonde, president of the ...

Park County beekeeper Andrew Bauer, a ranch worker and owner of Hazel’s Honey LLC, a family-owned Paradise Valley apiary, is ...

It’s estimated that roughly 90% of the world’s plants depend on bees’ survival. Bees are the world’s most significant pollinators and are vital to our ecosystem. These tiny insects excel as a colony, ...

In 2022, little did Aruna Bangura know that observing the changing environment and land use practices around his community ...

Over the years, beekeepers started producing honey and in the 1970s, South Kona quickly became the hub for rearing queen bees, which continues to be the state’s largest production of queen bees in the ...

We’re lucky that we produce a nice or multi-floral honey here in Ontario that doesn’t exist in other places,' explains owner ...

Julie Stiewig and her husband Kevin, owners of Two Drifters Farm in Weldona, have created a farm focused on sustainable ...

A Highland honey business has raised concerns about how plans for up to 400 new homes on nearby land could affect queen bees.

In 2023, honey bees had a production value of nearly $350 million, according to the USDA. Overall, 35% of the world’s food supply depends on pollinators.