Honey Bee Enterprise University of Maryland Extension

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service website, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) threatens the health of honeybees across the nation, the issue exacerbating in the 1980s with the increase of new pathogens & pests. Since a great number of agricultural crops we grow in Maryland depend on honeybee pollination, the honeybee decline threatens our food industry.

Honey Bee Enterprise University of Maryland Extension

Viral communities in the parasite Varroa destructor and in colonies of their honey bee host (Apis mellifera) in New Zealand

Chemical detection triggers honey bee defense against a destructive parasitic threat

Bee Wary: UMD-backed Study Finds Colony Losses… - Maryland Today

University of Maryland Extension - Wicomico County 4-H

United States Honey Bee Colony Losses 2022–23: Preliminary Results From the Bee Informed Partnership – Bee Informed Partnership

Pest and diseases of Honeybees

University of Maryland Department of Entomology

Managing Alternative Pollinators - Prevention - SARE

Last Winter's Bee Colony Death Rate Is Highest Reported Yet : The Salt : NPR

Bees disappearing at 'unsustainable' rate, signaling trouble for ag

Cecil County Master Gardeners

Pollinators and Pesticides University of Maryland Extension