NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO • July 3, 2023
If you like to eat blueberries, apples, almonds, and other fruits that require pollination, you can thank a honeybee. Farmers could not grow these crops without the essential service bees provide. Across the country bees have been disappearing from their hives. A new survey of beekeepers finds bees are still struggling. "Over the entire year, we estimate that beekeepers lost 48.2 % of their colonies," says Dan Aurell, a researcher at Auburn University's bee lab.