Waredaca Brewing Company, located on a sprawling 235-acre farm in Laytonsville has its own bees that provide honey for beer. “I love our beehives,” said Jessica Snyder, whose family has owned ...

Sam Droege’s stunning photos of national park insects are the bee’s knees. (And all the other parts, too.) Sam Droege’s photography studio is tucked inside an old Styrofoam beer cooler ... which ...

Unprecedented images ... honey. What he really wanted was to photograph a natural nest. This is no small feat. Even if you put on a beekeeping suit and climb 60 feet up into the forest canopy ...

On a foggy day, Kirk Visscher examines honey bees settling on the nest box they have chosen and to which the swarm has flown. The camera is recording the flight tracks of bees against the sky.

Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar. The honey we eat is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated. The average American consumes ...

A newborn honey bee worker (Apis mellifera) breaks free from her nursery chamber in the colony nest. A few weeks later, she will leave the hive in search for nectar and pollen to feed her siblings ...

See nine of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors. Sept. 26 ...

The scientists suggest a public relations campaign to restore the wasps' battered image ... of words associated with bees, the most popular for bees were "honey", "flowers" and "pollination".

But Russian bees are more resistant to it, and backyard beekeepers have had success with them. The problem, says Tarpy, is that Russian honeybees don’t make as much honey as their Italian ...

Our close relationship with bees dates back thousands of years and for good reason. These little miracle workers are a vital part of the environment and the food chain. Today the humble honey bee ...

Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Mix in honey, lemon juice, and zest. Mix in flour mixture and beer in three alternating additions. Bake 40 to 45 minutes, or until a knife ...

Stingless bees produce a healthier honey, uniquely rich in a rare sugar, called trehalulose, which may have benefits ranging from ranking low on the glycaemic index (GI) to displaying antioxidant ...