In 2006, there was a massive decline in the honey bee population. The media picked up the story and have yet to put it down. Everyone all of a sudden became aware of the importance of honey bees. They ...

The parasitic mite Varroa destructor (varroa) is generally agreed to be the greatest threat facing honey bees worldwide. Despite much research, losses continue due to lack of effective control ...

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.

The Varroa destructor mite may be tiny — only a millimetre or two long — but it poses a massive threat to honey bees, beekeepers and honey producers, and agricultural sectors that largely rely on bees ...

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 Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that threatens populations of honey bees worldwide, has long been thought to feed on blood like many of its mite and tick cousins. Findings of new research, ...

German scientists primarily based out of the University of Hohenheim have stumbled upon a simple solution that could deal a blow to honeybees' greatest threat. They've found that a tiny dose of the ...

Top of the list of potential beneficiaries are honeybees. These semi-domesticated insects, important not only for their eponymous product, but also as pollinators, are plagued by Varroa destructor, a ...

Reports of bee swarms in South Australia's South East have increased significantly after a "hectic" spring, but the ongoing threat of varroa mite to feral bee populations has potential to ...