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 ...

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.

Somewhere in the scrubby hills east of San Diego, feral honeybee colonies are doing something that commercial beekeepers ...

A hybrid population of Southern California honeybees is showing an unusual ability to fend off deadly Varroa mites, offering ...

Something extraordinary is unfolding in American beehives right now, and most people have no idea. The creatures responsible for roughly a third of everything on your dinner plate are vanishing at ...

Philip Gerrie lives in Noe Valley with, as he puts it, “a spouse, two cats, and 100,000 bees.” The past president of the San Francisco Beekeepers' Association is a soft-spoken man who calmly notes ...

The honeybee population is facing an existential crisis. A recent report shows commercial beehives have experienced a 62% loss nationwide in less than a year, accounting for hundreds of millions of ...

Monsanto, the biotech company whose proprietary genetically modified corn has been fingered as the possible culprit in the collapse of the bee population, has gone ahead and purchased Beelogics, a ...

PARIS — In the romantic city of lights, the bees are downright busy. Common sense says it is better to keep hives of stinging insects in the countryside, away from cities packed with people. Yet on ...

Honeybees are dying. In the winter of 2012-2013, one-third of U.S. honeybee colonies died or disappeared, a 42 percent increase from the year before and well above the 10-15 percent losses beekeepers ...

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 ...