In arid South Texas, home to mesquite and cacti, it hasn’t been uncommon for commercial beekeeper Robert Wheeler to lose half his bees every year. But this year has been far worse. His family-owned ...

One day soon, parasitic mites could accidentally arrive in North America. It's a doomsday scenario for pollinators that ...

Varroa mites feed on honeybees' fat body tissue, which weakens their immune systems, reduces their body weight, and shortens their lives. The fat body is an organ in bees that, if you were comparing ...

Varroa destructor is an ectoparasitic mite that can cause European honey bee colonies to collapse by spreading Deformed wing virus as they feed. A study published in PLOS Pathogens by Zachary Lamas ...

A non-native bee mite is causing the dramatic and sudden collapse of bee colonies across the country, but Penn State researchers believe they have found the combination of factors that triggers colony ...

A new strategy would use genetically engineered strains of bacteria to protect honey bees from a deadly trend known as colony collapse. An increasing number of honey bee colonies in the US have seen ...

A new fungus strain could provide a chemical-free method for eradicating mites that kill honey bees, according to a study published this month in Scientific Reports. A team led by Washington State ...

European honeybees are used by commercial beekeepers worldwide to pollinate crops and produce honey. Tanner Smida via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 Beekeepers in the United States have faced year ...

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FEW PESTS are more feared by apiarists than the aptly named Varroa destructor. This mite, originally a parasite of Apis cerana, the Asian honey bee, has plagued Apis mellifera, cerana’s western cousin ...