A honey bee pollinates a raspberry bush on June 9 in Whatcom County. About 1.7 million honey bee colonies — nearly 60% of all such hives in the country — were lost between June 2024 and March 2025.

The vegetative parts of mushrooms may hold the cure to viruses that kill bees. Honey bees may derive health benefits from the certain parts of mushrooms, giving them a chance to combat viruses that ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers one listener question about the natural world. This week, Andy in Dover asked, "What happened to colony collapse with bees? It seemed like they were ...

Bees. Nature’s pollinators, honey makers, and wing shakers. They’re one of man’s greatest resources and one of the oldest insects we have exploited. But they are constantly under attack by pests, ...

Lifting up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you’re getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a few thousand pollinators. The unit — dubbed a BeeHome — is an industrial ...

Colony Collapse Disorder is not the ‘‘dwindling’’ or slow debilitation that Bromenshenk says he has seen occasionally over the years, sometimes when bees suffer poor nutrition. Colony collapses happen ...

Colony collapse disorder (CCD)—the sudden and massive die-off of honeybees—has emerged as one of the most mysterious ecological disasters of the past several years, and one of the most expensive.

Three times in the past 120 years, honeybees have disappeared for mysterious reasons. Twice since the 1980's, there have been infestations of bee-killing mites. But those episodes have been restricted ...

A preliminary tally indicates that almost a third of all of the managed bee colonies in the United States — 31.1 percent — didn't survive the winter. That makes it the fourth-worst winter since 2006.

Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan of Orinda is once again pushing to restrict the use of crop seeds treated with neonicotinoids and other pesticides. This week’s Open Mic guest is Steve Nicholson, ...

Hundreds of flatbed loads of honey bees are trucked into Washington every spring, enabling the production of apples, cherries, pears and berries in the state. The pollinators are estimated to add at ...