The Idaho State Department of Agriculture has asked the Environmental Protection Agency for an emergency exemption that would allow Idaho beekeepers to use the pesticide amitraz, which works as an insecticide. Amitraz has proven effective as an insect repellent in other uses, but has not been approved yet for use in honeybee colonies in the United States.

Paul Jackson, with the Texas Apiary Inspection Service, says Texas is among the top 10 states for honey production, pollination service and queen sales. “Texas ships more than 500,000 colonies throughout the year,” Jackson said during the recent Texas Plant Protection Association annual conference in Bryan, Texas. But Colony Collapse Disorder is a threat, he added. “We think colony collapse is a combination of factors. We just don’t know exactly what causes it.” Stress likely plays a role. “Beekeeping has changed drastically from 10 years ago,” he said.

The Regional Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Manuel António Correiaassured that the Government is closely monitoring the disease that afflicts some hives through "by providing technical assistance and medicines" to combat the plague that according to him "is relatively controlled, but that need further work. "The statement was made on the sidelines of the celebration of Mass in the Faja Penedo in honor of St. Ambrose, the saint patron  of beekeepers.

In the battle of insects that took place in the skies and gardens of Dallas County last summer, some people say the wrong side won. Aerial spraying of insecticides to kill the mosquitoes that carried the potentially deadly West Nile virus knocked out honeybees but left new crops of mosquitoes

In Arouca, beekeepers are concerned about the inexplicable abandonment of hives. On top of a lot of Arouca, Alberto Aguiar, beekeeper for 20 years, shows the 30 hives with a desolate air. "Business is slow, almost everything is dead, I have two or three colonies alive," he complained.

The Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is examining the possibility of banning the controversial nerve-agent pesticides increasingly implicated in the decline of bees and other pollinating insects. Mr Paterson has asked officials of his Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to examine the practical consequences of restricting the use of neonicotinoids, which are now widely deployed across British agriculture

Some regulations about the bees' health and expected Efsa conclusions on  Neonicotinoids and Fipronil

Olson, whose bees pollinate crops up and down the West Coast, may have found a way to avoid the collapsing bee population plaguing the world. At least that's what Professor Sheppard intends to find out. Sheppard and his team are in Yakima to study CO2 levels and other gasses that build up in the building in which the beehives are stored.

Report on the unstoppable expansion of this wasp predator of the honey bees

The Provincial Council of Alava has reported the presence of Asian wasps, in the towns of Aramaio, Legutiano, Abezia, San Román de Campezo, Alaiza and Contrasta