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 tense standoff unfolded in Belfair on Saturday when Mason County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a burglary in progress on Alderwood Road. Here's what stores are open, and which ones are ...

A new study from researchers at Washington State University and the US Department of Agriculture’s Carl Hayden Bee Research Center suggests warmer falls and winters might be putting human-managed ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers found that longer autumns with good flying weather for bees raise the chances of colony collapse in the upcoming spring, according to a study published in the journal ...

The vegetative parts of mushrooms may hold the cure to viruses that kill bees. Honey bees may derive health benefits from the certain parts of mushrooms, giving them a chance to combat viruses that ...

Washington State University researchers and students collect samples and perform honey bee colony health assessments in orchards near Modesto, California. A study done in conjunction with the U.S.

A preliminary tally indicates that almost a third of all of the managed bee colonies in the United States — 31.1 percent — didn't survive the winter. That makes it the fourth-worst winter since 2006.

When a bee gets sick, it can’t necessarily social distance. “I like to think of it as a system, as a factory of sorts, with 30,000-40,000 bees crowded…just on top of each other, feeding each other and ...

Colony collapse disorder (CCD)—the sudden and massive die-off of honeybees—has emerged as one of the most mysterious ecological disasters of the past several years, and one of the most expensive.

Lifting up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you’re getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a few thousand pollinators. The unit — dubbed a BeeHome — is an industrial ...

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 ...

Washington State University researchers and students collect samples and perform honey bee colony health assessments in orchards near Modesto, CA. Every year more than 2 million honey bee hives from ...