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

For all the buzz around backyard beekeeping, there's a shift underway at the other end of the industry.

The big commercial operators are looking to move from mass honey production to pollination.

In part this comes down to the expansion of horticultural industries that rely on bees.

The belief that elephants are afraid of mice has been tested and seemingly proved by science television program Myth busters.

Bumblebees can learn to pull strings for food and pass on the ability to a colony, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

It’s not a friendly world for bees these days. Urban development, proliferation of agricultural chemicals, and unpredictable seasons induced by climate change have made it difficult for bees to keep on pollinating. Earlier this month, the US Fish and Wildlife Service added seven species of bees native to Hawaii to the

Millions of bees trucked into Victoria to pollinate almond plantations during August are now working their magic to help boost Victoria’s spring canola crops.

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

IT wasn’t as dramatic as a fire, but Mornington fire station officer Simon Mildren was only too happy to respond to a call out of an unusual nature last week.

A swarm of bees had made themselves at home on the front doorstep of a Mt Martha home and the owners – with young children – were a little

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.