Hive Wire Texas
Texas bee decline. New filings, studies and numbers. Every item links to its source.
Sources
| Source | What it pulls | Last run |
|---|---|---|
| USDA NASS Honey Bee Colonies | Texas colonies by quarter: lost, added, renovated, moved in, and reported stressors. Feeds the Texas Ledger | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| Federal Register | EPA, USDA and Fish & Wildlife rules and notices that mention neonicotinoids, honey bees, pollinators or the named chemicals | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| Regulations.gov dockets | New documents in EPA's registration review dockets for imidacloprid, clothianidin, thiamethoxam, dinotefuran, acetamiprid and the endangered-species evaluations | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| PubMed | Peer-reviewed studies on neonicotinoids and bees, and on honey bee colony loss | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| Texas Legislature Online | Bills filed or passed that mention pesticides, bees, apiaries or pollinators, plus agriculture committee hearings. Prefiling for the 2027 session opens Nov. 9, 2026 | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| Texas Register | Weekly state rulemaking journal; each issue is scanned for pesticide, apiary, bee and pollinator language | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| Texas Tribune | Texas Tribune stories that mention bees, pollinators or pesticides | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| Texas A&M AgriLife | AgriLife Today and Texas A&M Today stories tagged bees or honey | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| Agency page watch | Texas Apiary Inspection Service and TDA pesticide/enforcement pages that have no feed. Any wording change is posted with what was added or removed | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| U.S. Beekeeping Survey state table | Texas row of the annual survey (beekeeper-reported loss rates, including backyard keepers) | FAILED, Oct 19 12:34 am, 0 new |
| Google News | Headlines from news outlets matching bee/pesticide/Texas searches; headline and link only | OK, Oct 19 12:34 am, 10 new |
Manual items
Items marked Pinned, and survey and agency-report figures, are entered by hand from the linked source.
Method
A scheduled job collects new items from the sources above. Headlines come from the source. Summaries are the source's own abstract or text, trimmed. Tags are assigned by keyword match, so a tag means the words appeared, not that anyone concluded anything. A source that fails on a run is shown above, and nothing is invented to fill the gap.
Corrections
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