In 2022, 48% of honey bee colonies across the United States were lost. While most of the conversation around the issue has focused on climate change and habitat destruction, researchers have argued ...
In the overlooked corners of Puget Sound, wild bee populations are thriving in unexpected places, according to a ...
Beekeepers still don’t know if 1.6 million estimated hive die-offs were caused by a new pest, disease or pesticide event. ( Courtesy Almond Board of California) The Honey Bee Health Coalition has ...
After hearing whispering and outcries from commercial beekeepers about their colonies dying sporadically and mysteriously, Project Apis m. — a leading organization in the world of honeybees — ...
As Australian Pollinator Week (8–16 November) gets underway, new research has found that many Australians have poor awareness ...
A parasitic Varroa mite is attached to a European honey bee. Varroa mites, which spread diseases, have become widely immune to the most common insecticide used against them. (Courtesy USDA) Scientists ...
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This Newly Discovered ‘Lucifer’ Bee From Australia Was Named After Its Devil-Like Horns
“The taxonomist who describes a new species gets to name it,” Prendergast tells Jennifer Hassan at the Washington Post. After ...
State officials have made the first known detection in Alaska of the small hive beetle, an "economically significant" pest of honey bees, according to an alert published in late September. An Alaska ...
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