honey bee

A nationwide survey of beekeepers has revealed catastrophic honey bee colony losses across the United States between June 2024 and February 2025.  These alarming losses, which surpass historical trends, could significantly impact U.S. agricu...

Honey bees and their keepers have been having quite a bit of trouble keeping the colonies strong and alive. You may remember the news headlines started about 15-16 years ago. Headlines about millions of bee colonies dying off, or in some cases, the bees were just disappearing, with the nation's beekeepers losing 30 to 50% of their colonies every year...

The Department of Agriculture recently granted a conditional license for a vaccine to protect the country’s honeybees from foulbrood disease.  The vaccine was developed by Dalan Animal Health, a small biotech company working primarily on bee diseases.   “Ameri...

It is one of the challenges in finding solutions to address and improve pollinator health. "There are quite a few aspects to pollinator health which can make data collection tricky. And to make things even more difficult, is that they are all inter-related ...

A team of WSU entomologists have released the results of a study that looked at the likelihood that honey bees are negatively impacted by real world pesticide use.   Dr. Allan Felsot said, “What we found is that the probability is very low. Even with all ...