Cornell University bee experts are analyzing samples of bees and related material to help identify the cause of unprecedented managed honeybee losses this winter.

and gently brush off the bees and put the capped honey into a bee proof box for transportation to the extraction room. They then start the process of removing those wax cappings which the bees spent ...

One queen bee commands a hive of male drone bees and ... to leave enough honey for the colony to survive. With that, extracting honey from the hive doesn't impact the bees, though some beekeepers ...

The beekeeping industry has dealt with crippling bee death loss this year, with commercial apiaries losing on average 62% of their bees, while hobbyist beekeepers lost around 50% according to the ...

The extent of the bee deaths is still being tallied ... Fourth-generation beekeeper Zac Browning stands in the honey extraction room at Browning Honey Company in Jamestown, North Dakota.