Oct 01 Bee species added to endangered list for first time By Rebecca Oh For the first time in the U.S., bees have been placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act. Continue reading
Sep 04 Watch 4:38 Why urban beekeeping is a rising trend in major cities By Sam Weber, Laura Fong Bees are critical to agricultural production, but beekeeping is actually increasing in cities like Los Angeles and New York City, where restrictions on the practice were recently lifted. In Philadelphia, where there are thousands of abandoned lots to forage, both… Continue watching
Sep 04 8 things you didn’t know about bees By Kamala Kelkar Beekeepers all over the world in the last ten years have reported significant colony losses that may be caused by interconnected effects of pesticides, parasites, landscape changes and a warmer climate. Continue reading
Jul 19 WATCH: Bees’ buzz unlocks secret stash of pollen By Lisa Marie Potter and Joshua Cassidy, KQED Only bees that buzz in just the right way can release tiny grains of pollen from a flower. Continue reading
Feb 26 Species of bees and other pollinators are shrinking, UN report warns By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Many species of wild bees, butterflies and other critters that pollinate plants are shrinking toward extinction, and the world needs to do something about it before our food supply suffers, a new United Nations scientific mega-report warns. Continue reading
Jan 06 EPA says pesticide harms bees in some cases By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press WASHINGTON — A major pesticide harms honeybees when used on cotton and citrus but not on other big crops like corn, berries and tobacco, the Environmental Protection Agency found. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch 8:45 Are pesticides to blame for the massive bee die-off? By PBS News Hour Commercial beekeepers across America have been struggling with great numbers of bee deaths over the past few years. What’s behind their failing health? Some research points to a class of pesticide that’s coated onto a large proportion of corn and… Continue watching
Nov 11 Human relationship with honeybees dates back 9,000 years By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins A new study in the journal Nature suggests that the relationship between humans and honeybees may have begun over 9,000 years ago. Continue reading
May 19 Feds propose plan to bolster decline in bees By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press The federal government hopes to reverse America's declining honeybee and monarch butterfly populations by making more federal land bee-friendly, spending more money on research and considering the use of less pesticides. Continue reading
Jun 06 Forget the queen: bees and humans work together without a leader By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Queen bees have no power. So how do bees, and humans, work together when no one is in charge? Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Connecticut find out. Continue reading