Survey finds fewer beekeepers reporting colony collapse disorder die-offs in honeybeesFewer beekeepers are reporting evidence of a mysterious ailment that had been decimating the U.S. honeybee population. But losses due to colony collapse disorder remain high enough to keep beekeepers on edge, and longtime stresses on bees such as ...

Iraq's once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion. "Honey production has fallen by almost half since the 1980s," when output of the prized sweet reached a peak of 80 tonnes a year ...

Pesticides, viruses, industrialised farming, fungus... what on Earth is killing our bees? That's the big question being asked at Apimondia, the 41st world apiculture congress, where 10,000 beekeepers, entomologists and other actors in the honey business are gathered in this southern French city until Sunday. Across parts of ...