If you’re interested in beekeeping but are debating which type of hive to choose or if you’re already a beekeeper and are wondering about different types of hives then read on. Here I’ll talk briefly ...

In the past few years, the popularity of and interest in beekeeping has soared. Whether it is due to the rise in homesteading or concern for the alarming decline in the bee population, more and more ...

Since the Civil War era, most beekeepers, we at The Chronicle included, keep bees in stacked wooden boxes called Langstroth hives. The simple design is named after the Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth ...

Few of us truly appreciate just how much the honey bee has been industrialised – and the simple yet radical invention that made that industrialisation possible. Show more Humans have valued bees for ...

This Christmas marks the 200th birthday of Lorenzo Langstroth, the "Father of American Beekeeping." May Berenbaum discusses Langstroth's life and his beekeeping inventions, and Tom Seeley talks about ...