One of Pledger’s specialties is building hives and frames — what beekeepers call woodware — from cypress harvested in North ...

This is a busy time of the year for the commercial beekeepers. The majority of the commercial beekeepers are involved in the ...

Hinsdale resident Dale Kleber is helping grow the Oak Brook Park District’s bee apiary at the Dean Nature Sanctuary.

To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 ... energy for a small colony to survive the winter. Theoretically, the energy in one ounce of honey would provide one bee with enough ...