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, ...

A recent survey by Landcare Research estimates that 6.4 percent of bee colonies are lost due to the Varroa Destructor mite, demonstrating that its destructive effects are escalating. The annual survey ...

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.

Honey bee mortality can be significantly reduced by ensuring that treatments for the parasitic Varroa mite occur within specific timeframes, a new study reveals. The mites—belonging to the species ...

For 20 years it has ruthlessly attacked Britain's hives - wiping out millions of bees and bringing misery to honey producers. But now scientists have launched the fightback against the invasive, blood ...

Fall is here, and the foraging is not easy. Angry bees are swarming all over me — flying into the mesh covering my face, landing all over the rest of my head-to-ankle, borrowed, brilliant-white bee ...

TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - If bees were busy before, they’ll be downright frantic now. There’s still just as much work to do – making honey and pollinating the nation’s crops – but not nearly as many bees to ...

Jonathan Garaas has learned a few things in three seasons of backyard beekeeping: Bees are fascinating. They're complicated. And keeping them alive is not easy. Every two weeks, the Fargo, N.D., ...

USDA’s Agricultural Research Service is scheduled this spring to release honey bees from Yugoslavia. These bees resist two mites now threatening the supply of bees needed to pollinate crops. While ...

The parasitic mite Varroa destructor is a severe threat to New Zealand’s honey bees. Since the mite appeared on our shores twenty years ago, affected bees have not been able to survive without human ...