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 ...
A commercial beekeeper fears the destructive honey-bee parasite varroa mite is spreading through southern New South Wales faster than surveillance and detection systems can manage. The flat ...
If the mites continue to spread, it could cost the honey production industry alone $70 million ($48m, £39m) a year, he says. About a third of Australia's food production relies on bee pollination ...
Another study published this week, however, suggests bees around the world are developing the ability to "clear out" a particularly damaging parasite - varroa, a mite that lives and feeds on ...