Volunteers tend rooftop apiaries and community hives in KC urban neighborhoods, Brookside and Blue Hills, learning beekeeping and ecology.

If you see a bumblebee now, it is most likely a common eastern: While most other species are gone, waiting for spring to reemerge, it forages on.

If beekeeping is one of those things you have always wanted to do, but never had time to pursue, maybe now is the time to start learning about this exciting hobby. Keeping honey bees requires planning ...