A veteran central Iowa beekeeper will offer a free, online course in beekeeping starting next month for Iowa youth between the ages of 13 and 16. Julia McGuire heads the Des Moines Backyard Beekeepers ...

The Iowa Bumble Bee Atlas is looking for volunteers to net bumblebees and collect data that could help conserve the native ...

H. R. Cooke picked up beekeeping as a hobby when the covid 19 pandemic started two years ago after Covid. You find yourself still with the hobby while I found myself with about 100,000 bees. And now ...

MASON CITY, Ia. — Two weeks after the Iowa State Fair, Randy Elsbernd is extracting honey from boxes of honeycombs in his garage. “I’m not an insect fan at all,” said Randy, a 48-year-old firefighter ...

Justin Bernard of Red Oak, Iowa, was named a Herbert Hoover Uncommon students – one of 14 in Iowa who are finalists for high school juniors – for his project, “PolliNation.” RED OAK, Iowa - Justin ...

DUBUQUE, Ia. (AP) — Despite facing myriad challenges, local beekeepers and conservation officials are striving to preserve populations of honeybees and other critical pollinators. Clayton County ...

Iowa beekeepers are carefully watching the news from Oklahoma, where a swarm of feisty bees attacked a work crew earlier this month, sending seven men to the hospital. Some fear they’re so-called ...

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) - As a school nurse at St. Edmond Catholic School, Marie McLoughlin helps students who aren’t feeling well. At her rural Webster County home south of Badger, she and her husband, ...

Two North Iowa students have been awarded beekeeping scholarships from the Iowa Honey Producers Association. Collin Witte of Rockwell and Gwen Voaklander of Osage will receive a bee hive, beekeeping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1996, Iowa beekeepers worked to diversify products after the frigid winter knocked out up to ...

MOUNT VERNON, Iowa (AP) — Some Iowa beekeepers make extra money by taking their bees to California for the winter to pollinate almond trees, but that work is literally drying up with the drought on ...