Insights and Stories on Honeybees

COMMENT: How honeybees can help us monitor pollution across Canada

Dec. 27, 2024 at 10:12 am CST

The honey produced by the tireless work of the honeybee is nothing short of an untapped goldmine of environmental data that could help us better understand the spread of environmental pollutants.

Canadian honey production down in 2024

Dec. 12, 2024 at 10:51 am CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Beekeepers call to reopen cross-border package bee trade

May. 2, 2023 at 4:25 pm CDT

By Jonah Grignon

Two more ‘murder hornets’ turn up on B.C. mainland

Nov. 11, 2020 at 2:48 am CST

By Dave Bedard

More ‘murder hornets’ found in B.C., Washington

May. 29, 2020 at 10:25 pm CDT

By GFM Staff Reuters

Field studies fuel dispute over whether neonics harm bees

Jun. 30, 2017 at 7:51 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Two major studies into how bees are affected by a group of pesticides banned in Europe gave mixed results on Thursday, fuelling a row over whether the neonicotinoid pesticides are safe. The studies, one conducted across three European countries and another in Canada, found some negative […]

By Kate Kelland

Wild bees seen dwindling in main U.S. crop regions

Dec. 21, 2015 at 7:37 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Wild bees, crucial pollinators for many crops, are on the decline in some of the main agricultural regions of the U.S., according to scientists who produced the first national map of bee populations and identified numerous trouble spots. The researchers on Monday cited 139 counties as […]

By Will Dunham

Court rejects Ont. growers’ bid for stay on neonic regs

Oct. 23, 2015 at 7:17 pm CDT

The association for Ontario corn and soybean growers is “evaluating several options” after its request for a stay of the province’s new limits on neonicotinoid seed treatments was rejected. The Ontario Superior Court denied the request from Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) for a stay and interpretation on the neonic […]

By Staff

U.S. EPA proposing temporary pesticide-free zones for honeybees

May. 28, 2015 at 6:24 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. environmental regulators on Thursday proposed a rule that would create temporary pesticide-free zones to protect commercial honeybees, which are critical to food production and have been dying off at alarming rates. The restrictions are aimed at protecting bees from “pesticides that are acutely toxic” to them, and […]

By Carey Gillam

U.S. honeybee losses soar over last year, USDA finds

May. 13, 2015 at 1:47 pm CDT

Reuters — Honeybees, critical agents in the pollination of key U.S. crops, disappeared at a staggering rate over the last year, according to a new government report that comes as regulators, environmentalists and agribusinesses try to reverse the decline. Losses of managed honeybee colonies hit 42.1 per cent from April […]