More than 17,000 bee hives have been destroyed in NSW to control the spread of varroa mite A Hunter Valley queen bee breeder has had to euthanase his bees The movement of bees around Australia has ...

Brandon Hopkins, left, an entomologist with Washington State University, talks with Joel Smith, co-owner of Belliston Brothers Apiary of Burley, Idaho, outside a winter storage facility they are using ...

In response to a fast-spreading syndrome called colony collapse disorder (CCD) that's striking honey bees nationwide, scientists at Agricultural Research Service bee laboratories across the country ...

Sabrina Rondeau received funding from the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ...

HONOLULU - (HawaiiNewsNow) - The state Department of Agriculture Thursday licensed a miticide for use by Hawaii beekeepers to control the varroa mite, which is considered one of the most serious pests ...

Honey bees face many threats today. Habitat loss and pesticides often get the most attention. But one of the most damaging ...

Where would we be (!) without bees? Bees are irreplaceable in our food chain. One out of every three bites of food that we eat have been made possible by bees’ activities – nuts, fruit, and vegetables ...

It has been just over a month now since varroa mite was detected in sentinel hives at the Port of Newcastle, with millions of bees in emergency zones since euthanased. Hive movement is now underway in ...

Buzzing bees and blooming trees are, to Dan Cummings, what life is all about. So the owner of 4,500 acres of almond orchards in and around Chico doesn't take kindly to a pint-sized mite that is ...

Among the many threats to honey bee colonies around the world, one stands alone: the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. For decades, researchers assumed that varroa mites feed on blood, like many of ...

Stephen John Martin receives funding from BBKA and BDI. Flaviane Santos Souza does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...