Todd Swanson, who leads the Ashe County Beekeepers Association, talks about efforts to save honeybees in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene's devastation. Todd Swanson, who leads the Ashe ...

The North Carolina Zoo is no longer working with the North Carolina State Beekeepers Association. On Feb. 23, the Beekeepers Association was informed by the North Carolina Department of Natural and ...

Houses were floating down rivers in videos on John Pledger’s phone as Helene moved through the North Carolina mountains. He watched at his home in Asheboro and wondered how he could help. “Then I saw ...

On a warm day in the spring, when you look at a bright flower and see a bee dancing around on the inside of the plant, that creature is likely just making a stop on a long journey before it returns to ...

Now that flowers are blooming in trees and on the ground, the buzz of bees is creating a background noise every time you walk ...

A North Carolina beekeeper is urging homeowners to relocate, not exterminate, bee colonies to safeguard pollinators essential to ecosystems. He warns that extermination leaves behind comb and honey ...

When farmer Kamal Bell first established a beekeeping operation at Sankofa Farms in North Carolina, his son Akeem was four years old and scared of bees. But with his father’s coaching—and the help of ...

John Pledger, a beekeeper from Asheboro who runs a beekeeping supply company, is building and donating hives to people in Western North Carolina who lost their hives to Helene’s flooding. Courtesy ...