Season 6 Episode 12 About Bees, Culture & Curiosity Podcast – 2025: Ten Bee News Stories

Links to our ten featured news stories from 2025:

62% Bee Losses Honey Bee Health https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org/survey-reveals-over-1-1-million-honey-bee-colonies-lost-raising-alarm-for-pollination-and-agriculture/

Washington State study on colony losses https://news.wsu.edu/news/2025/03/25/honey-bee-colony-declines-grow-as-wsu-researchers-work-to-fight-losses

USDA pinpoints reason for colony collapse https://www.dvm360.com/view/usda-pinpoints-cause-of-recent-mass-honeybee-collapse

Michigan State https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/reports-of-high-honey-bee-colony-losses-and-how-farmers-and-growers-can-support-honey-bees

USDA study shows virus magnification via mites https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2025/usda-researchers-find-viruses-from-miticide-resistant-parasitic-mites-are-cause-of-recent-honey-bee-colony-collapses/

UBC Pheromone signalling reduced by viruses, leading to supercedure https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/ubc-research-reveals-why-honey-bees-overthrow-their-queen/

Developmental and Caste Regulation (weak queen resistance to pesticides) https://d197for5662m48.cloudfront.net/documents/publicationstatus/241858/preprint_pdf/b569fa5471ba21b61111b60552fd7aa0.pdf

California Almond Growers PDF https://www.almonds.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/Cover%20Crops%20Best%20Management%20Practices%20BMPs_0.pdf

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems – natural mix of pollens leads to better bee success https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1555238/full

Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees. Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09431-y

First continent-wide bee strategy (Canada and USA) plan to protect bees https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org/NABS/

Recorded in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in December 2025.

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