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

Mites were less attracted to the Californian hybrid honeybee larvae, especially at seven days old, the stage when mites are normally most likely to invade. The finding suggests the bees' secret to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Dorothy Kozlowski / UGA In April, veterinary students at the University of Georgia pulled on white protective suits ...

Southern California is home to a flying black and yellow treasure. While commercial honeybee hives nationwide are collapsing under attack from deadly parasites, a unique hybrid bee found only in this ...

Americans consume more than 600 million pounds of honey each year, so much that honey has to be imported to meet the demand.

Kirk Nelson walked outside recently to check on the honeybees he'd been tending for about six years, and got a stark surprise. One of the two colonies in his backyard in Orono, Minnesota, had buzzed ...

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 ...

The world's worst honey bee parasite is genetically mutating, making it resistant to common treatments used to save hives. Authorities say treatment-resistant varroa mites were found in New South ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A catastrophic loss of bee colonies over the winter has been blamed on a mite that injects a virus into the bees and spreads the ...

What caused catastrophic honeybee colony losses earlier this year? Researchers, scientists and beekeepers have been looking for answers since January, and now new research from the USDA’s Agricultural ...

The world's honeybee population is in peril, and the implications reach beyond the hive. With the crisis threatening the sustainability of beekeeping as an industry and the global food system itself, ...