Around 2006, beekeepers and scientists started talking about something called colony collapse disorder. CCD at that time was a new phenomenon; suddenly whole hives of ...

In recent years, articles on honeybees have often started with a sentence like this: “Populations of honeybees have crashed in ...

Hive-bound young honey bees (Apis mellifera) are being poisoned by insecticide and weed killer gathered by their foraging hive mates, ...

In the last decade, the use of neonicotinoid insecticides increased significantly in the agricultural landscape and meanwhile considered a risk ...

Dicamba drifts. Apparently, more than expected by a lot of farmers, agriculture officials and manufacturers. But does that mean, as ...

Forget extinctions. Population decline is a much greater crisis. ... We watch for extinctions like those with the thought that, ...

A 55-year-old Spanish woman has died following repeated exposures to an acupuncture method that uses live, stinging bees instead of ...

[S]tudies have shown that not all the compounds are equally toxic to [honeybees], suggesting that there might be variation in ...

EU lawmakers have urged the European Commission to convince member states to back its proposal to ban neonicotinoids and avoid ...

A recent op-ed in the Sacramento Bee repeated the debunked conspiracy theory that Monsanto manipulated the EPA to hide evidence ...

A study into the presence of neonicotinoids in Canadian waterways suggests a ban or restriction of neonicotinoid seed treatments is ...

“Judge Orders California Agriculture Officials to Cease Pesticide Use" ... The judge’s decision is so scary because he just indefinitely ...

The number of monarch butterflies that overwintered in forests in Mexico fell for a second straight year, experts say. Monday's ...

According to the European Union Food Safety Authority, most uses of neonicotinoids represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees ...

European farmers are facing a total ban on a common group of pesticides after a report confirms they harm bees, ...

The almond industry contributes an estimated $21 billion annually to California’s economy and it is completely dependent on honeybees for ...

[Editor's note: On Feb. 28, the European Food Safety Authority issued a report concluding that neonicotinoid insecticides pose risks to ...

The world’s most widely used insecticides pose a serious danger to both honeybees and wild bees, according to a major ...

Public pressure is growing in Australia to ban the sale of pesticides called neonicotinoids because of their harmful effects on bees. The ...

A Quebec class-action lawsuit against two producers of neonicotinoids — commonly used insecticides that have been linked to a declining population of honeybees — ...

A new study raises questions about the effectiveness of the two most popular types of agricultural pesticides, noting overreliance on ...

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group is among the organizations lobbying the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the pesticides, known ...

The need for a backup bee has become critical, particularly in almond orchards. Almonds are California’s second-largest crop, injecting an ...

Calls to ban ‘bee-harming pesticides’ heightened last year following the release of new field studies on the effects of neonicotinoids, ...

Quebec is introducing new restrictions on pesticides considered harmful to honeybees. Under the changes, farmers will have to get permission from a certified ...

A recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey detected neonicotinoid pesticides in 10 Great Lakes tributaries throughout the year, although the levels ...

There is widespread concern about the global decline in pollinators and the associated loss of pollination services. This concern is ...

Recent studies of honeybees and bumblebees have examined combinatory effects of different stressors, as insect pollinators are naturally exposed to ...