Beekeeping challenges

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

An estimated 30-70% of US grocery honey is adulterated. The FDA has no standard of identity for honey. Testing catches some fraud. Transshipping hides the rest.

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.