There has been an overwhelming drop in the number of wild bee species that are reported in public records over the past 30 years, according to a new study. There has been an overwhelming drop in the ...

Whether you’ve noticed it or not, there are far fewer bees around nowadays. One-quarter of the world’s 20,000 bee species are in precipitous decline or have already gone extinct since 1990. A range of ...

More and more Illinois residents — including a few in west-central Illinois — have taken up beekeeping in recent years, ...

A majority of beekeepers around the country have lost at least half of their honey bees in a mysterious disappearance over the last nine months that has baffled scientists. Commercial beekeepers, with ...

There’s now a record number of honeybees humming in the U.S—and for many farmers, hobbyist beekeepers, and almond-milk lovers, the news is sweeter than honey. Nearly a million bee colonies have been ...