The world's worst honey bee parasite is genetically mutating, making it resistant to common treatments used to save hives.

Researchers from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of California, Davis, are helping ...

Honey bee mortality can be significantly reduced by ensuring that treatments for the parasitic Varroa mite occur within specific timeframes, a new study reveals. The mites—belonging to the species ...

Researchers from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of California, Davis, are helping beekeepers protect their colonies ...

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.

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - As one of the nation’s top beekeeping states, Texas bees are responsible for producing over 7 million pounds of honey annually, and pollinating a variety of crops all across the ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 13 (UPI) --Primates aren't the only animals who groom one another. New research suggests some species of honeybees battle parasitic varroa mite infections by grooming. The ...

Commercial beekeepers are worried that a tiny parasitic mite that destroys the lifecycle of honeybees might devastate their industry and cost the nation's fruit and nut farmers billions of dollars.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tropi’s natural host is the giant honey-bee (Apis dorsata), common across South and Southeast Asia. At some point, the mite jumped ...