On Feb. 26, Mark Bedillion and his daughter, Lily, drove to a bee yard they operate on a property in Industry, Beaver County. Bee season is underway, and the pair were making a routine visit to the bee yard - one of more than 25 bee yards Bedillion Honey Farm owns across Southwestern ...

Reports of honeybee swarms have started to tick up recently, and local beekeepers are ready to safely remove them if they pop up on your property. Swarm season actually came a bit early this year. Fred Miller, president of the Tri-County Beekeepers Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania, ...

In her 1970 classic “Big Yellow Taxi,” Joni Mitchell laments the use of insecticides and asks of farmers, “Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.” In 2019, researchers affiliated with Cornell University issued a study finding that the population of ...