A highlight of the Western Apicultural Society’s meeting was placing queen bee hormone under the chin and attracting a swarm ...

At the UF/IFAS Duval County Extension Office, we receive lots of calls asking for information on bee swarms. It is often thought that the queen is the “ruler” of the hive. Conversely ...

She explained that when a hive gets too full, a swarm of some bees will fly off with a new queen to make their own hive somewhere else. That’s what happened on Sunday. “They got too many bees ...

“For the swarm on the fence, we had to get those bees and put them on frames and put them in a box,” Blackburn said. “We got the queen bee in the box, and the others all followed.

Lance Davis is most famous for saving the day when bees swarmed Carlos Alcaraz's Indian Wells quarterfinal, but he's in it ...

When a queen emerges, thousands of worker and drone bees will follow, and frequently settle on fences, light posts, trees or buildings. One swarm settled at the Towers Apartments on Friday ...

As spring nears, the people behind Bryan's Bees are warning the public to be aware of the beginning of bee swarm season.

“The bees are always extremely calm,” he said, noting that some beekeepers handle swarms with their bare hands. The best scenario is to attract the queen bee into the container early on.

McMinn, a skinny man with large ears, wire glasses, and a boyish face, has had a circuitous path to beekeeping. Though he always had an interest in bees, it wasn’t until his wife passed away and he ...

Kochara explained that, in the springtime, bees will start to swarm and typically form balls to protect their queen. These balls can range in size from a softball to a basketball and people ...

As the days get warmer, there will be more and more activity at the entrances of honey bee hives. Honey bee colonies should ...