Philip Gerrie lives in Noe Valley with, as he puts it, “a spouse, two cats, and 100,000 bees.” The past president of the San Francisco Beekeepers' Association is a soft-spoken man who calmly notes ...

Honeybees are dying. In the winter of 2012-2013, one-third of U.S. honeybee colonies died or disappeared, a 42 percent increase from the year before and well above the 10-15 percent losses beekeepers ...

More than a quarter of beekeepers were considered to have Colony Collapse Disorder, wrote Robyn M Underwood and Dennis ­VanEngelsdorp in 2007. In a collapsed colony, the bees don’t die, they abandon ...

This week marked the beginning of what’s called “the peaking season” for state lawmakers, and it’s seen some food-safety-related bills moving forward without producing any big trends. The ...