Washington State University researchers and students collect samples and perform honey bee colony health assessments in orchards near Modesto, California. A study done in conjunction with the U.S.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

When a bee gets sick, it can’t necessarily social distance. “I like to think of it as a system, as a factory of sorts, with 30,000-40,000 bees crowded…just on top of each other, feeding each other and ...

The vegetative parts of mushrooms may hold the cure to viruses that kill bees. Honey bees may derive health benefits from the certain parts of mushrooms, giving them a chance to combat viruses that ...

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.

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - SkyFOX captured the dramatic moments where a man collapsed to the ground after he was attacked by bees in Los Angeles' Encino neighborhood. Emergency crews initially responded to a call ...

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 ...