Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since abandoned by a black woodpecker. For those first few days of the siege, the honeybees appeared helpless in the face of the hornet ...

Stinebiser said her family was well aware of a wild hive of bees living in a tree in their yard and had prepared a hive box, expecting they might someday want to relocate the insects. But the bees ...

While modern trees like maples and ashes have switched to wind pollination — releasing clouds of pollen to be scattered at ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

the bees are simply waiting for the scout bees to come back after finding a suitable place to locate the new colony such as a cavity in a tree. Since they don’t have a colony to defend ...

They’re livestock requiring monitoring, medicines and maintenance throughout the year, so if this seems too much to take on, ...