Dead-outs: that dreaded event in a beekeeper’s world when an entire colony of bees dies in the hive. It was a heartbreaking day in mid-December when we found that one of our colonies had died out.
A reddish-black mite the size of a tiny crumb latches onto a honeybee, feeding on its fat body and transmitting diseases as the bee struggles to survive. The Varroa destructor, an aggressive mite, ...
Commercial beekeepers are worried that a tiny parasitic mite that destroys the lifecycle of honeybees might devastate their industry and cost the nation's fruit and nut farmers billions of dollars.
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., found that rising atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels are reducing protein in goldenrod pollen, a crucial late-season food source for bees. Pollen protein ...
See here for an introduction to colony collapse disorder and part 1 of this two-part series. Africanized bees, more often known as "killer bees," have earned notoriety as opportunistic attackers of, ...
The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. EPA registration paves the way for beekeepers to combat a critical threat to pollinator health BOSTON, Sept. 25, 2025 ...
Honey bee mortality can be significantly reduced by ensuring that treatments for the parasitic Varroa mite occur within ...
A new breed of honey bees, named “Pol-line”, has been selectively bred to identify and remove the Varroa mite from their colonies, which has been a major threat to honey bees for half a century. This ...
Dr. Sammy Ramsey examining a frame from one of his lab’s hives, looking for cells that might have baby bees developing inside. Credit: Santiago Flórez, Science ...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 13 (UPI) --Primates aren't the only animals who groom one another. New research suggests some species of honeybees battle parasitic varroa mite infections by grooming. The ...
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