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 ...

The Scale of What Is Already Gone A single honeybee colony can contain up to 80,000 workers. In the United States alone, ...

Emmy Award-winning journalist Paula Ebben co-anchors WBZ-TV News at 5:30 p.m. Ebben is also an anchor for CBS News Boston and reports across all newscasts including WBZ-TV News' "Eye on Education" ...

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 ...

As domestic honey production falls, the U.S. is relying more heavily on imported honey while beekeepers struggle to replace lost colonies.

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 ...

In recent years, the phenomenon of bee colony collapse has emerged as a significant threat to global food security and biodiversity. Bees, being crucial pollinators, play a foundational role in ...

With the deformed wing virus, scientists have, for the first time, managed to simulate the course of disease using artificial genetic material of the virus. Understanding this process is key to ...

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 ...