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 ...

In Enterprise, bee experts are teaching the next generation of beekeepers a process called instrumental insemination to help ...

Lifting up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you’re getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a few thousand pollinators. The unit — dubbed a BeeHome — is an industrial ...

One of nature’s most important keystone species is working itself to death. Colonies of honey bees — crucial pollinators for a wide variety of plants and cash crops — are at risk of collapse because ...

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 ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers one listener question about the natural world. This week, Andy in Dover asked, "What happened to colony collapse with bees? It seemed like they were ...

Climate change-induced warming may be jeopardizing the survival of honey bee colonies in the Pacific Northwest, a new study has found. Contributing to this threat is an increasingly long autumn season ...

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 ...