The honeybee mite, Varroa destructor, finally breached Australia’s biosecurity defences four years ago, and is here to stay. Even more concerning, our standard treatments – such as specialised ...

The team says the work paves for the way for remote and non-invasive monitoring for Varroa mites—currently one of the greatest threats to the honeybee—in hives. Beekeepers across the world currently ...

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.

Dr. Sammy Ramsey examining a frame from one of his lab’s hives, looking for cells that might have baby bees developing inside. Credit: Santiago Flórez, Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Varroa mites on a male bee larva. Theotime Colin Australia’s honeybees are facing an exceptional crisis. The tiny but devastating ...

Dr Richard Hall is a principal scientist at MPI and was one of a team of researchers involved in Project Varroa. Photo: MPI Prefer us on Google Beekeeping can be a solitary and busy job, and sometimes ...

In Southern California, some honeybees appear to be doing what many others across the country cannot: living with one of beekeeping’s most destructive parasites and keeping it under control. That ...