Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

In Southern California’s inland valleys, where colonies stay active year-round and Varroa destructor never gets a winter ...

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 ...