California lawmakers have advanced a bipartisan measure to safeguard pollinators, with Assembly Bill 1042 now on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. The bill would establish the state’s first Managed Honeybee ...

The Honey Bee Health Coalition has requested the USDA Agricultural Research Service authorize its scientists to share analysis of what caused “catastrophic losses” of 60% of U.S. honey bee colonies.

CALIFORNIA HONEYBEES may be getting their own health plan. With bee populations declining across the country, the California Assembly has passed a measure led by Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom, ...

Neonicotinoid pesticides negatively impact honey bee health, as the chemicals have been found to slow the insect's ability to forage pollen, according to a study from Environmental Science and ...

How do you vaccinate a honeybee? And will beekeepers care enough to do it? Those are the questions Annette Kleiser has been wrestling since founding Dalan Animal Health in 2018. Five years after ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - What’s the buzz about honeybee health? Experts are reporting that the bee industry is fragile after commercial beekeepers started reporting a startling statistic. “Reports ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — There’s a buzz at Colorado State University, where veterinary students are learning how to care for those important pollinators in a new course in honeybee medicine. The course ...

Two seemingly innocuous viral infections in adult honeybees may be secretly insidious, meddling with the insects’ airborne athletics. One virus makes them fly faster, while the other pumps the brakes.

The health of honey bees, essential pollinators in natural and agricultural ecosystems, is increasingly compromised by a complex interplay of pathogens and parasites. Recent studies have advanced our ...

There is a tiny species of carpenter bees known as the spurred ceratina (Ceratina calcarata) that behaves unlike any other known species of bee. With their elongated and shiny bluish-black bodies, the ...