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.

Roughly 300,000 robot hives are in use across the U.S., scattered across fields of almond, canola, pistachios and other crops ...

LIFTING up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you’re getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a few thousand pollinators. The unit—dubbed a BeeHome—is an industrial upgrade ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

USDA blames virus spreading mite for 60% loss of bee colonies, among other stressors. About 80% of food crops in U.S. relies on pollination by bees.

Abstract. Preventing beneficial insects like honey bees (Apis mellifera) from contacting pesticides on crops using odorants could counter current pollinator declines.However, the discovery of ...

It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply pleasure. Bulb-like corms, at top, produce saffron crocuses ...

Pistachios are growing fast in California, where farmers have been devoting more land to a crop seen as hardier and more drought-tolerant in a state prone to dramatic swings in precipitation.The ...

The crop generated nearly $3 billion last year in California and in the past decade, the United States has surpassed Iran to become the world’s top nut exporter.