For many beekeepers, spring is the time for installing new packages of bees.

Mike Bennett keeps bees in his backyard in Bloomington Indiana. In the spring, beekeepers may need to install a new package of bees into their hives, if the bees didn't make it through the winter ...

Bees are valuable in the garden because they fertilize vegetables, flowers and other plants by carrying pollen from one bloom to another. Although European honeybees are commonly used commercially ...