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.

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 ...

(WKBN) — Two years ago, local hobbyist beekeeper Brian Koper had 21 colonies. Now, he’s left with just three. Koper recently put out a post on his social media page, asking his beekeeping friends if ...

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 ...

How do you vaccinate a honeybee? And will beekeepers care enough to do it? Those are the questions Annette Kleiser has been wrestling since founding Dalan Animal Health in 2018. Five years after ...

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 ...

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 ...