According to the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists, the most frequently cited causes of bee mortality were weather, starvation, poor queens and weak colonies in the fall.

Colonies suffered from parasitic, disease-spreading Varroa mites. Floods and fire didn’t help.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it’s suspending tracking the plunging honeybee population because of a budget shortfall.

Authorities say some 300,000 bee colonies died in June and July. Experts blame pesticides — specifically neonicotinoids — but also varroa mites, the loss of natural habitat and flowers, and, more recently, climate change.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on the decline, according to a new study. Researchers...

Three of the 15 bumble bee species found in Vermont are thought to be extinct and at least one other species is in decline.

In Southcentral Alaska, wasps seem to be everywhere. One Anchorage clinic has seen more than 250 sting patients this year.