The problem is we’ve been saving the wrong bees — elevating a single species of interlopers above our 4,000 native bees. Scientists are finding that honeybees can actually accelerate the ...

Good news: We saved the bees. Bad news: We saved the wrong ones. My latest column, on how our well-intended plans to heal nature sometimes go awry. Gift link:

Despite urgent pleas to Americans to save the honeybees, it was all based on a fallacy, writes Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. Honeybees were never in existential trouble. And well …

May 11, 2024 · Popular slogans and ad campaigns have urged the public to save honeybees. But reports suggest those efforts were directed at saving the wrong bees.

2 days ago · Good news: We saved the bees. Bad news: We saved the wrong ones. Link in bio to my latest column, on how our well-intended plans to heal nature sometimes go awry.

May 16, 2024 · Scientists were ringing alarm bells about colony collapse disorder a decade ago. Brian Walsh of Vox explains what happened. Honeybees were too valuable to fail. A little more than a …

The save-the-bees movement took flight in response to a crash in the honeybee population 20 years ago caused by “colony collapse disorder” — a threat to the 35 percent of global crop production that …