This is FRESH AIR. In 1977, Jim and Susan Neumann of Evanston, Ill., started a mainstream jazz record label called Bee Hive. They released 16 LPs over the next seven years. Now the complete Bee Hive ...

Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs to track when they go in and out of their hives. The work, a collaboration among entomologists ...

It’s a hot summer day and you’re sipping your lemonade on the porch when a honey bee lands on your cup, deciding it is a shareable beverage. Her home must be close, right? Have you considered your ...

The Sunshine State’s warm winter temperatures keep the bees active, allowing them to continue to forage. So-called “migratory beekeepers” rely on this three-month sojourn to build up their colonies’ ...

It was all about the bees last week for two Park Slope residents who set up a hive on the roof of a Brooklyn brownstone, home to about 12,000 fuzzy pollinators. Early Friday morning, the beekeepers — ...

ST. JOSEPH — Hobby beekeeping is finding roots in communities across the country, with cities like New York and Milwaukee passing local beekeeping ordinances, and now St. Joseph is looking to join the ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Back in 2012, a bill was passed in Texas, giving landowners a tax break for beekeeping. Since then, Texas has become a fast-growing beekeeping state, with the number jumping from ...

An estimated 40,000 bees have created quite a buzz at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The bees – rescued from one home in Naperville and another in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood – are now nestled in the ...

Urban Homesteads are growing in popularity as people begin to grow more interested in how their food is grown and how their homes interact with the city around them. Seattle is a breeding ground for ...

A new pilot program is all the buzz at a Massachusetts Department of Correction facility. Two bee hives housing 40,000 bees have been placed at Pondville Correctional Center in Norfolk. The initiative ...

Researchers attached QR codes to the backs of thousands of bees to track when and for how long they left their hives. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New ...