GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami) – Florida continually ranks as one of the top five honey producing states in the country but Hurricane Michael significantly impacted the beekeeping industry in the Florida ...

In Florida, you can keep bees in your backyard. That's a good thing because honey bees are vital to food and wildlife in the state. Despite threats like disease, habitat loss and queen quality issues, ...

If you’ve ever given any thought to how Floridians spend their free time, you might have landed on something like swimming, hunting, fishing, surfing, shelling, boating or sunbathing. And while all of ...

A group of 17 inmates at the Reception and Medical Center in Lake Butler will be the latest class of certified beekeepers from the center’s Beekeeping Program. In 2011, the Florida Department of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keith Seifert Jr. is calm surrounded by bees. While he wears protective gear over his head, the 34-year-old beekeeper leaves his ...

As Hurricane Ian approached Florida in September, Jeremy Ham had one thing on his mind: honeybees. His bees, like those of hundreds of other beekeepers in Florida, were in the middle of their fall ...

Florida beekeepers are scrambling to re-establish colonies following Hurricane Michael’s devastation. The following is information put out by the University of Florida: GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Hurricane ...