beekeepers

IRBID: Jordan's key tourism industry may have been hammered by COVID-19, but the pandemic gave a boost to another sector, keeping its beekeepers busy as demand for honey has soared. The country's 4,000 apiarists have ramped up output of…

The sight is one that beekeepers say is understandably intimidating to the ordinary person out for a walk: a sliver of sky suddenly darkening amid the collective roar of thousands of honeybees before they cluster on branches or bushes.In…

Hobby beekeeper Ramin Abdollahi remembers opening up a hive this spring, only to find a pile of dead honeybees at the bottom.  "It is very, very heartbreaking," said Abdollahi, who lives in Kitchener and keeps his hives at a farm near…

For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United States truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers who need the insects to pollinate the state's most valuable crop. But as almond trees start to…

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s wildfires have left little behind, turning green forests into ashen, barren hills. The destruction is being intensely felt by Turkey’s beekeepers, who have lost thousands of hives as well as the pine trees and the insects…