Pollinators are our friends but their populations are dying off. Anthea Batsakis explores what's behind the slaughter.

INTRODUCED to beekeeping in Grade 7, Paul Marsh's passion for the industry is still going strong decades later, and now he wants to share that love with others.

Based in Sarina, he established a business focusing on producing queen bees for the domestic and Canadian markets. However, in 2012 he rebranded to Bee2U, moved into honey production and hasn't looked back.

 

A north Queensland hobbyist beekeeper says he is outraged after being forced to get rid of his four hives, following pressure from local government. Finch Hatton resident Barry Parkins has been breeding native and honeybees on his hinterland property for two years. But after the Mackay Regional Council came out to his property to...

A sticky tug of war has arisen over the right to the “manuka honey” label — the name attached to a pricey variety whose superfood status has won it fans from TV’s Kourtney Kardashian to tennis star Novak Djokovic.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing the rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once widely found in the upper Midwest and Northeastern United States, for federal protection as an endangered species.

The Food and Drug Administration, under public pressure to start testing samples of U.S. food for the presence of a pesticide that has been linked to cancer, has some early findings that are not so sweet. In examining honey samples from various locations in

If you have an interest in learning about beekeeping, the Bega Valley Amateur Beekeepers are holding informative introductory workshops for anyone interested in getting started.

Backyard beekeepers in Hobart are celebrating after council removed a regulation which enforced a 50-metre buffer zone between beehives and neighbouring properties

Honey bees play an essential role in agriculture, not only producing honey and beeswax but also pollinating a vast number of food crops.

Beekeeping is a unique primary industry, depending on native flora for about 80% of its production. Nectar and pollen are produced seasonally and beekeepers must often move their hives large distances to be 

A significant amount of bees in the Florida Keys have been killed due to the aerial spraying of the pesticide Naled, which is aimed at killing Zika virus-infected mosquitoes.