News Roundup: Honey Bee Health Coalition Continues to Lead Public Awareness on Colony Losses

In March 2025, national and regional media outlets across the country continued to spotlight catastrophic honey bee colony losses — coverage driven in large part by data, coordination, and public-facing leadership from the Honey Bee Health Coalition (HBHC) and its partners.

As HBHC helped elevate survey findings and shared timely insights on sudden colony loss, news organizations picked up the story at scale, reinforcing HBHC’s role as a trusted source and convener on honey bee health. Together, these stories helped bring clarity, urgency, and public attention to an issue with serious implications for pollination, agriculture, and food systems.

March 2025 media coverage highlighting honey bee colony losses includes:

• The Packer — Examining potential causes behind catastrophic U.S. honey bee colony losses and the uncertainty facing growers and beekeepers
• Northern Ag Network — Reporting survey results showing more than 1.1 million colonies lost and raising alarms for pollination and agriculture
• Bee Real (syndicated across multiple agricultural outlets) — Highlighting the strain on the honey industry from widespread colony losses and market pressures
  • Cedar County Cooperative
  • Enterprise Grain
  • Alliance Grain
• Adirondack Explorer — Reporting a surge in hive losses among beekeepers in the Adirondack region
• Missouri-based outlets — Documenting catastrophic bee losses across the state and the lack of clear answers
  • Maryville Forum
  • Missouri Business Alert
  • News Tribune
  • Fulton Sun
  • TN Content Exchange syndication
• WVLT-TV — Covering rising honey bee health concerns as beekeepers report the loss of more than 1.1 million colonies nationwide

Taken together, this coverage reflects how the Honey Bee Health Coalition is bringing sudden colony loss into the public conversation — ensuring the issue is visible, grounded in credible data, and understood by audiences well beyond the beekeeping community. Through continued coordination, transparency, and engagement with media, HBHC is helping turn widespread concern into informed awareness and action.