This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Brother Adam must have known he had become a beekeeper at an unlucky time. It was 1915, and he was a 16-year-old novice at ...

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The NSW south coast's only queen bee breeder is using instrumental insemination to breed colonies resistant to varroa mite. It's a delicate process that only about 50 Australians are trained to do.

Three bee-eater birds are believed to have made a historic return to the UK. A colony of breeding bee-eaters successfully hatched chicks in Norfolk last summer. The RSPB said a trio of the ...