Beekeeping challenges

The EPA logged 152 confirmed bee kills from pesticide drift between 2013 and 2023. The actual number is almost certainly much higher.

The 2023 World Beekeeping Awards cancelled their honey competition because organizers couldn't guarantee entries were actual honey. What FDA testing catches - and what it's designed to miss.

Three compounds - imidacloprid, clothianidin, thiamethoxam - control 25% of the global insecticide market. The EU restricted them in 2018. The US hasn't.

Aethina tumida arrived in Florida in 1998 from sub-Saharan Africa. In warm, humid climates, it destroys a colony in two weeks. Cold winters are its only limit.