Honeybees are preying on aphids for the sugar, but this diet doesn’t contain the protein the honeybees need to survive.
The honeybees are resorting to aphids because there aren’t enough suitable flowers to feed them.
Story here.
Plant Sweetpea and Mint!
No need here. The Air Force just finished spraying so what bees we had are now gone. As are most of the dragon flies, lacewings, spiders,etc. Yeah… 
In our garden I have only seen one honey bee this year. I think it is a very serious matter, I always plant flowers and blooming herbs for them, but the bumble bees are the only ones buzzing about.
Bzz…
IB’s article referred to bumblebees, not honeybees. I’m not sure of bumblebee status in my stomping grounds, but they’ve never been populous here; you might see several at most in a day. Honeybees? Fuggeddaboudit. I saw some last year and hoped against hope that the die-off might have finally amended, but this year not a one so far that I could see. It’s all wild bees and other pollinators. At least nature has something of a backup plan, and I imagine that’ll be sufficient for wild plants and hobby gardens and such, but for commercial crops that otherwise depend on domestic bees, I hope it’s enough, too.
This year I’ve planted sweet peas, wildflowers, fire poppies, and baby’s breath and I see way more butterflies than bees. It’s the first year I’ve had a garden there, though, so I am unsure if this is normal or not. My guess is not.
Unfortunately it seems that most natural pollinators are suffering declining/collapsing populations. Likely a major food supply threat. China is already having to employ armies of human pollinators for insect pollinated crops, at some point it is likely to be unsustainable.
I use the term honeybee in that sense used by Encyclopedia Britannica:
I understand that although Bumblebees DO make honey, their hives are not conveniently organised for its gathering, as are the hives of other types of bee. For Beekeepers “honeybee” is a technical term. My apologies.
Well, I’m no beekeeper. But I’d always known domestic bees (Apis mellifera) as “honeybees” in colloquially differentiating them from bumblebees (Bombus sp.). Might be a regional thing, maybe?
Maybe so. In these parts, the big fat ones are called “bumblebees” and the skinny ones are called “humblebees”.
“Daddy, what’s that?”
“A mumblebee.”
“Daddy, what’s that?”
<Whack!>
“A crumble bee.”
It don’t matter, they’re both important and likely both suffering from some of the same causes of decline. And the big fuzz butts are better pollinators than the black and tans. Bumblebees do leave larger holes in ya though 
We say “I’m squishing up a baby bumble bee”
I’m allergic to them, but they’re so cuuuute!
How well I know. I sat on one when I was a kid.
Denny, will you STOP singing already?!
now that you have acknowledged it?
yep! 
What are you carrying on about? I DID acknowledge it.
With this.
Remember? Imagine the poor thing singing the same song.
You know, sometimes we’re just at cross-obliquities. Even great minds cannot always think alike, it would appear. But enough of that.
Bees.