Second Lady Karen Pence and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently teamed up to install a honeybee hive on the grounds of the Vice President's residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. This will serve as a "great example" of what people can do to help "reverse the decline" in managed honeybee colonies around the country, the secretary said. Helping bees and educating people about bee problems is a good idea. However, if the hive is an attempt to reduce media and environmentalist criticism of Trump Administration policies--or put the Pences and Ag Department on the "right" side of the "bee-pocalypse" issue--it will backfire. It will also undermine administration efforts to advance evidence-based science, restore integrity to scientific and regulatory processes, promote safe modern technologies, and support continued crop production and exports.

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