The plan, released yesterday, also recommends
numerous measures to address growing concerns about the threat that
bees, birds, butterflies, and
other pollinators face from multiple factors, including pathogens, pesticides, climate change, and habitat loss.
Although USDA and EPA have taken «
numerous actions to protect the health of honey
bees and
other species of
bees,» beekeepers «continue to report rates of colony losses that they say are not economically sustainable,» the GAO audit says.