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.

Heroes who thwarted attack on woman at Point Defiance Park to be honored by Tacoma police The Tacoma Police Department (TPD) plans to honor two community members who intervened during a violent ...

The post Modified Yeast Has Been Shown To Increase Bee Development By 15 Times, Which Could Lead To A Reversal Of Colony Collapse first on TwistedSifter. Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are one of the most ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers found that longer autumns with good flying weather for bees raise the chances of colony collapse in the upcoming spring, according to a study published in the journal ...

One of nature’s most important keystone species is working itself to death. Colonies of honey bees — crucial pollinators for a wide variety of plants and cash crops — are at risk of collapse because ...

WASHINGTON -- Wild bumblebees worldwide are in trouble, likely contracting deadly diseases from their commercialized honeybee cousins, a new study shows. That's a problem even though bumblebees aren't ...

A new study from researchers at Washington State University and the US Department of Agriculture’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Center suggests warmer falls and winters might be putting human-managed ...

Someone mentioned that in the other thread - that's a very interesting topic on it's own. I've heard everything from new insecticides to new strains of diseases to cellphone signals pinned as the ...

A $3.3 million research project into colony collapse disorder (CCD), the phenomenon of honeybees mysteriously dying in droves, lost thousands of its test bees to thieves. Researchers at the Center for ...

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 ...