The Open Source Beehives Project aims to lower the barriers to backyard beekeeping with simple, low-cost hive designs. With bees dying by the millions, they need to spread the buzz.

The simple design is named after the Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth of Pennsylvania, who was the first to figure out that if you place frames 1/4 to 5/16 of an inch apart in a box, a bee colony ...

It is the third meeting of the Yale Bee Space at the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design (CEID), and hive coordinator Fred Rincon ’16 is at the whiteboard with a marker, drawing a beehive.

Most modern beehive designs are based on the simple Langstroth hive, invented by a Pennsylvanian of the same name and patented in 1852.

One innovation, two beautiful kinds of green Flow Hive is a perfect example of how people can use innovation to foster overall environmental health. But the idea is proving green financially, too ...

It didn’t help that the Flow Hive company’s Indiegogo fundraising campaign had broken records by making $12.2 million dollars in just three months. At beekeeping events around the country, even ...