The honey bees in California die. Can a bilateral account help them save them?

Honey bees across the country are attacked by tiny eight legs parasitic mites. These mites grow between the segments of the adult bodies of bees or invade their larvae and infect them with viruses – they deform their wings and leave them without flights.

This is not only problematic for bees – whose whole colonies can collapse from the invasion of mites – but also for California, which relies on bees for its production and food economyS

Earlier this month, the State Assembly prevailed a bill that will direct the California Department of Food and Agriculture to create a Health program for managed bee beesS The department will work with beekeepers, farmers, scientists and other stakeholders to provide grants for projects and research that support honey bees.

Honey bees are essential for pollination of almonds that are lucrative Industry with a very billion dollarS Bees are also produced 13.3 million kilograms of honey In 2024 or nearly 10% of the country’s delivery worth $ 32.8 million.

But since the late 1980s, Varroa Mites, born in Asia, began to penetrate the bee colonies in the United States until the beginning of the 2000s, they were “in the hives of all,” says Ryan Buris, president of the California Association of Beekeepers.

Pesticides and other pest management methods have stabilized the bee population over the decades. But the commercial deaths of bee bees have been rising in the United States in recent years and the reason why it remains unclear. Between June 2024 and March 2025, beekeepers lost 1.6 million colonies – an average of 62% of their coloniesS

The proposed program will provide grants to support beekeepers and farmers to plant more crops or buy probiotics to improve the health of bees, among other things.

Currently, the bill is before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, where it can be considered in mid -July.

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By the deputy editor of Calmatters Adam Ashton:

Governor Gavin Newsom is open to giving public officers to California a temporary interruption of his or her office mandate to the office.

The Union, representing about 14,000 state engineers, has concluded a transaction that slows the order for four days a week in one year. He had to take effect on July 1.

Professional engineers in the California government have revealed this agreement, along with a new contract, which includes some concessions that Newsom wanted to cut off salaries as it tries to reduce the $ 12 billion budget deficit.

Workers represented by the Union will receive a 3% increase next week, but this will be offset by the compulsory unpaid time, which would generally cancel the pay increase in two years. This is similar to the terms of a deal made last week with Union representing the state prisonersS

• Ted TopipinPECG Executive Director: “These two agreements are the best conditions for our members at the moment … The PECG team is working hard to deliver the most important for PECG members and to make its pay and benefits improvements despite the challenging times.”

Newsom adopted bodily work policies during the Covid-19 pandemic. He returned public officers to the office twice a week last year and ordered a larger move in Four days a week in MayS

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After calm and marking published an investigation In April, this found that California covered the Enrollees personal data with LinkedIn, Congress requires answersS

AS Colin Leher and You take the apodaca Explain, Republican legislators in the House of Representatives sent a letter Last week, the Executive Director of the State Health Insurance Market, expressing his concern about the “Consequences of Privacy and Security” revealed by the investigation.

When visitors completed the forms on the California Coating Website, the trackers sent information to LinkedIn, including information on whether the visitors were blind, pregnant, used a large number of medicines prescribed by prescription or reported that they were transsexual or possible victims of domestic violence. Data tracking has been working for more than a year.

After the story is published, most advertising trackers were removed from the site, and Crocce Califormition said it had completely stopped the use of trackers. Four other state health sites They have also been found to share information with technology companies.

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NEWSOM wants to reduce the reflection of Medi-Cal weight loss drugs to help deal with the lack of budget of the country. Calmatters Anna B. Ibara And the video strategy director Robert Miex has a video What can this mean to patients receiving ozmpic As part of our partnership with PBS Socal. Watch it hereS

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