Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Washington State University researchers and students collect samples and perform honey bee colony health assessments in orchards near Modesto, CA. Every year more than 2 million honey bee hives from ...

Honey bees across America are facing a crisis that threatens their very existence. Research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows that Nebraska is among the hardest-hit states, losing as many ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) are helping American beekeepers solve the mystery behind a widespread honey bee colony collapse and its ...

Farmers are struggling to pollinate their crops. And with fewer bees and rising costs, the price of everything — from almonds to berries — could skyrocket. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist ...

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 ...

Climate change-induced warming may be jeopardizing the survival of honey bee colonies in the Pacific Northwest, a new study has found. Contributing to this threat is an increasingly long autumn season ...

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 ...

The famous work ethic of honey bees might spell disaster for these busy crop pollinators as the climate warms, new research indicates. Flying shortens the lives of bees, and worker honey bees will fly ...