Raising bees to be naturally hardy gives them a leg up in today’s challenging environment. We talked with Kirby about what it means to be a small-scale bee breeder and why hardy survivor stock is ...

On a farm on the outskirts of Frederick, Kelly Rausch and Adam Finkelstein crack open a wooden beehive whose design dates to the 19th century. Inside, they point out a superbee they have made for ...

For $95 the Department will provide bee breeders with the necessary equipment. The new method, the Department thinks, may revolutionize the bee business.

Queen bee breeder Michael Kiem has built a successful business by capitalising on the fact that diet is transformative for female honey bees and express posting his little livestock across ...

For breeders like Mr Wilson, euthanasing bees is like losing your life's work and now he faces some tough decisions about what to do next. "At this stage, don't really know, suppose I've got to ...

Although breeders have made progress, many of their methods remain unchanged even with the recent availability of affordable gene sequencing. “The honeybee genome was sequenced in 2006. There really ...