Commercial beekeepers lost an average of 62% of their colonies this year, threatening $17 billion in agricultural production.

Julia Mahood has been rearing honey bees for two decades, so when a hive showed signs of a bacterial infection called ...

Preliminary data from the latest U.S. Beekeeping Survey shows that from April 2024 to April 2025, beekeepers nationwide lost ...

Hive inspections are vital for a happy and healthy bee colony year round, but especially during the winter months. Beekeepers ...

Nebraska has seen 70-80% bee colony collapse in the past year. There are many factors causing the decline, but local ...

The Varroa mite might be the main cause of honeybee dieoffs recently but other human-caused environmental factors are also at ...

The SA government has invested in sentinel hives and employed more biosecurity staff to check ferries arriving at Kangaroo Island in an effort to prevent the spread of varroa mite. The island is an ...

Biosecurity measures have been bolstered to protect Kangaroo Island's world-famous Ligurian bee population from the parasitic pest varroa mite. Every ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a startup building giant robot boats, manipulating DNA with electricity ...

Q I am a 29-year-old woman, and I am concerned that I might have mites in my areola. I found one when I tried to squeeze what I thought was a whitehead and saw a demodex mite come out. I went to my ...