As new data shows annual bee losses approaching 60-70% in some regions and swarm season arriving nearly three weeks early.

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 ...

A Florida community deploys AI-powered robotic beehives to protect declining bee populations that pollinate roughly 75% of ...

Bees usually begin foraging at two to three weeks old, but when older workers are killed off by disease, lack of food or other factors they have to start younger. Credit: Photo: SEAN GALLUP/GETTY ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beekeeper Wes Hull points a smoker toward one of his hives, calming the bees inside by disrupting the pheromones they use to communicate. (Noah Wicks photo) Researchers say they may have found an ...

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 ...

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 ...