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AUBURN, Al. (WRBL) — Essential to plant and human life, bees play a key role in pollinating the food we eat, but they are facing a crisis. Founded in 2025, Auburn’s new “Bee Center” does more than ...

Santa Rosa 9-year-old Nicholas Bard is a walking encyclopedia of honeybee facts. A colony needs 30 to 60 pounds of honey to survive each winter. The average lifespan of bees is about two weeks. And ...

Mike Lamp shows off the honeycomb his bees produced at his apiary in Morgantown, West Virginia, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (Photo by Rebecca Hempleman/WVU Reed School of Media) This story was produced ...

In a corn field near Olathe, workers pick and hand off ripened corn to a platform that was slowly traveling through the fields on Thursday, August 2, 2018. Olathe sweet corn is one of the most prized ...

OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) -- Honey bees across America are facing a crisis that threatens their very existence. Research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows that Nebraska is among the ...

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Mike Lamp may not be very busy as the cooling November temperatures settle on his apiary in Monongalia County, but that doesn’t mean the work stops entirely. Serving as the ...