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 hives in the country — were lost between June 2024 and March 2025.

A new study is providing long-awaited answers for commercial beekeepers who faced record honeybee colony losses last winter.

In many places, autumn is synonymous with apples. Apple-laden orchards invite us to pick our own, farm markets boast gorgeous ...

Locally produced honey is flying off the shelves — so much so that many honey producers cannot meet the production demands. “I’m not having problems selling my honey,” beekeeper Dennis Arp said. “I’m ...

Hundreds of millions of pollinating bees escaped a commercial transport vehicle after it rolled over on May 30 in Lynden. A commercial truck carrying 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives tipped over early ...

OLYMPIC — A Senate bill that would ban Washington residents from applying neonicotinoid pesticides is a “feel-good stunt” and likely would hurt pollinators, a commercial beekeeper said Feb. 23. Under ...

Honeybees must eat the right sterols directly from pollen and pass them to their developing young. A bee "superfood ...

Andy Strehlow felt a deep and familiar sting when he saw the beehives were missing. Just days before, the bees had been trucked more than 1,700 miles from his bee farm in South Dakota to a sprawling ...

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 ...