Sprawled on the steps beneath the state Department of Health's office building at 13th and Governor streets, a block from state Capitol, Tom Fifer looks like he could be sunbathing, or meditating.

Our friends the bees have certain behaviors that are unhealthy to the hive and scary for passersby. One behavior, swarming, happens when a hive splits naturally with a group of bees following a new ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI -- An expedition to the tropical forests of Central America gave a Washtenaw County teacher a new appreciation for environmental research -- and a renewed interest in sharing that ...

“Get the queen inside your box,” says Samantha Winship, a 40-year-old beekeeper and urban farmer in Winston-Salem, N.C. Don’t be afraid if you find a mass of as many as 20,000 honeybees in a tree or ...

Beekeeping is a very rewarding hobby. Just think about all that delicious, golden honey flowing...mmm! But those of us who have been keeping bees for a while know that you eventually need to start ...

The services of pollinating animals are necessary for the reproduction of over 85 percent of flowering plants, and the majority of these pollinators are bees. Characteristics of individual bees, ...

Bees that land on short, wide flowers can fly away with an upset stomach. The parasite (Crithidia bombi) is transmitted when the insects accidentally ingest contaminated bee feces, which “tends to ...

Contacts for media: Emily Gowdey-Backus, [email protected] and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944, [email protected] LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass ...

Until he participated in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., in May, Niwot’s Ben Lenger, 12, and his family didn’t realize that such competitions are virtually unknown in countries ...

THESE FLIGHTS, THOUGH AREN’T FROM AIRPLANES. PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL HAS HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS EVERY DAY, SOMETHING THAT’S VITAL TO OUR REGION. BUT THERE ARE OTHER TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS HAPPENING HERE ...