Bees are said to be responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat. Honey is good but it’s the flowers they pollinate that makes bees essential to our lives.

Bee expert Doug Purdie says you don’t need to manage a bee-hive, you simply need to grow plants that bees like.

When Professor Mandyam Srinivasan began studying bees 25 years ago, he had no idea where it would take him.
He was interested in learning how they landed so elegantly, and avoided colliding in mid-air.

There are tricks of the trade when moving any type of livestock, but shifting a group of beehives takes real finesse, and there is an art to getting all the stock on the truck.

Beekeeper Dwayne Sykes is moving a group of hives from their nest in some grasses and flowers, in the hills above Wellington in the New South Wales central west


SANDRA Ullrich loves bees. She really. Loves. Bees.

To hear the nursing lecturer-cum-apiarist talk about her furry yellow charges is to hear a woman besotted.

Ullrich literally talks to her bees, introducing herself as she approaches each hive

Jiang's family has been keeping bees for 80 years and he now manages 500 hives in the northwest county of Hsinchu. In total his family run around 2,000 across northern Taiwan.

WHEN you mention leatherwood to an old beekeeper, a misty faraway look comes into his eyes.

It is all about the honey harvest from leatherwood trees having been better “in the old days”. Indeed, it was.

Over the past 50 years of forestry operations, with