Old queen: Your queen may be more than a year or two old. Some beekeepers routinely requeen every September to be sure their queen is healthy, young and productive. Others prefer to let the bees ...

Sooner or later, the original queen you started with is going away. Here's how you can safely introduce a new queen bee to ...

Keeping queen bees chilled in indoor refrigeration units can make the practice of "queen banking"—storing excess queens in the spring to supplement hives in the fall—more stable and less labor ...

The cage is made of two clear pieces that snap together around an injection-molded 264-well honeycomb plate for the bees to store food and for the queen to lay eggs in.

The first queen bees to arrive in Australia for seven years are expected to bring significant benefits and risks to the bee ... will be isolated in a new cage with Australian escort bees for 14 days.

Keeping queen bees chilled in indoor refrigeration units can make the practice of “queen banking” — storing excess queens in the spring to supplement hives in the fall — more stable and ...