Bees are dying—and at an alarming rate. Between 2023 and 2024, U.S. beekeepers lost an estimated 55.1 percent of their colonies—the worst loss in more than a decade and nearly 15 percent higher than ...

Roadsides mowed less often and treated with herbicide more carefully had about 45 percent more pollinators in an Ontario ...

Get a honeybee near a rose or a lavender and the insect will extend its strawlike tongue to search for nectar, pollinating the flower in the process. That’s at least how it works in clean environments ...

The USDA Economic Research Service released the June Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook on June 18. Though the monthly report is focused on sugar prices and production and import volume, this month’s report ...

15-Oct-2024 3:10 PM EDT, by College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Around 90% of the country’s commercial bee colonies congregate in ...

Late last year, the New South Wales government announced an additional A$9.5 million in funding to support honeybee keepers in the wake of the 2022 arrival and subsequent spread of the Varroa mite.

WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. It’s a workout in what feels like a sauna as the ...

I’m personally allergic to bee stings. I discovered that the hard way when I had to rush to an emergency room as my whole body was swelling in reaction to a bee sting—but I’m still going to celebrate ...

To obtain the biggest cherry harvest, trees should be pollinated by both honey bees and mason bees. A new study led by a researcher at the University of Gothenburg shows yet another benefit of ...

These stinging insects have very different behaviors.

Beekeepers are inviting the public to celebrate the vital role of pollinators at a free event. Wiltshire Bee and Honey Day, organised by the Wiltshire Beekeepers’ Association, will take place on ...