On their website, the Flow Hive had been advertised by their inventors to provide honey “on tap” in a way that was “less stressful for the bees” than traditional methods. Designed with parts that ...

This Christmas marks the 200th birthday of Lorenzo Langstroth, the "Father of American Beekeeping." May Berenbaum discusses Langstroth's life and his beekeeping inventions, and Tom Seeley talks about ...

It is the third meeting of the Yale Bee Space at the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design (CEID), and hive coordinator Fred Rincon ’16 is at the whiteboard with a marker, drawing a beehive.

Since the Civil War era, most beekeepers, we at The Chronicle included, keep bees in stacked wooden boxes called Langstroth hives. The simple design is named after the Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth ...

The top bar hive like this one is being replaced with the new type that the supplier says makes it possible to recycle combs. file Harvesting honey from hives hung by wires or in logs has long been a ...

For 170 years, modern beehives has remained largely the same Now two beekeepers, including Winterthur's keeper, may have invented a better hive The Keeper's Hive may help prevent colony deaths, its ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The life of a beekeeper can be rewarding, yet challenging. Early mornings often start ...

The Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild held its first honey festival 10 years ago. Local beekeepers wanted to create a space to make bees more approachable. Sarah Plonski, president of the Philadelphia ...