Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since abandoned by a black woodpecker. For those first few days of the siege, the honeybees appeared helpless in the face of the hornet ...

This time of year, millions of bees are needed to pollinate more than 1.5 million acres of almond trees that are planted mostly in the San Joaquin Valley. Beehives are trucked in from across the ...