Samuel Ramsey, an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, is renowned for his expertise and effervescent enthusiasm for everything related to bugs. He's made ...

Among the many threats facing honeybees in the United States, the Varroa destructor mite could be the most devastating. Sebastian Gollnow / Picture Alliance via Getty Images Last January, California’s ...

Every January, Charles Linder travels from Illinois to Idaho to retrieve thousands of bee hives from a temperature-controlled storage facility. He loads boxes of hives onto a semi truck headed west ...

Last January, California’s beekeepers were worried they wouldn’t have enough bees to pollinate the almond bloom, their biggest money-making event of the year. Gene Brandi, a California beekeeper and ...

A string of hard years for the beekeeping sector has helped push tensions over packaged bee imports from the U.S. into the ...

The first multi-year honeybee disease study in the United States has revealed that varroa mite infestations in the country are far worse than what was previously believed, as the population of the ...

OTTAWA — Canadian beekeepers are sounding the alarm about a pest that's spreading in parts of Asia, and a Conservative MP is calling on the federal government to change a long-standing policy on ...

The New York Times—CU Boulder entomologist Sammy Ramsey is leading international efforts to combat the Tropilaelaps mite, a newly identified parasite threatening honeybee populations worldwide. His ...