Science & Environment New honey bee energy bar tested in Washington offers hope for struggling hives By Jes Burns (OPB) June 12, 2025 6 a.m.

The Honey Lake Bee Co. now has more than 200 hives in about 20 locations, including at the Pepper Road property. “By spreading them around, the bees do better,” Brian Thomson said.

The Grow a Garden bee is a type of pet that comes from the Bee egg. On your garden, it's used to add the Pollinated mutation to crops, making them exchangeable for Honey during the Grow a Garden ...

Curtin University research has revealed that high densities of European honey bees could be harming Australian native bees' fitness by reducing their reproductive success and altering key traits ...

Honey bees are a key species, with a profound impact on ecosystem stability, biodiversity and agricultural productivity because of their role in pollination. By revealing how sleep modulates their ...

Server co-organizes the Niwot Honey Bee Harvest Festival, which celebrates not only honey bees but all pollinators; talks there have focused on bats, bumblebees, mushrooms, wasps, soil, and ...

As of 2025, honey bee populations continue to face significant challenges. A recent study published in the journal Nature in March 2025 examined the impacts of neonicotinoid pesticides on bee health.

Pollinators, like honey bees, are crucial to an estimated 35% of the world’s food crops, the USDA reported in 2022. In 2023, honey bees were worth nearly $350 million in production.

Jenny Hubbard, president of the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary in Newtown, was concerned to hear recently that the sanctuary’s apiary with one million honey bees shrank from 17 hives ...

Stewart and Lynda Resnick’s Wonderful Co. is among a handful of honey bee farms responsible for the pollination of a third of Americans’ food. But the real buzz is how they rent them out.