Beekeepers across the state, the nation’s fifth-largest hub of honey production, worry about significant financial losses.

Summer’s here and so are the stings. From nettles to ticks to jellyfish, here’s how to treat (and avoid) the season’s most painful bites.

"I knew right away that it was a black bee, because it is very distinctive: as big as a bumblebee, black, with a deep ...