“Honey is a great incentive,” says Christine Webster, founder of The People’s Bees, which aims to connect people with bees and the natural world through apiculture (beekeeping), education and advocacy ...

My husband David’s favorite dinner-party story tells of our first bee expedition. Friends from Maple City, the story goes, had offered us three hives abandoned on their farm by a beekeeper-turned-monk ...

Gene Robinson is a honeybee biologist in the Department of Entomology, and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The Lives of ...