A parasitic Varroa mite is attached to a European honey bee. Varroa mites, which spread diseases, have become widely immune to the most common insecticide used against them. (Courtesy USDA) Scientists ...

Under cover of darkness, Wilson Bowles loads up his 1958 Dodge pickup and heads west toward the mountains with his sleeping cargo. Bowles is carrying 20 hives of honeybees from his apiary in Boyce, Va ...

Kirk Nelson walked outside a week ago 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 had buzzed out of its ...

A deadly parasite that infests beehives and kills honey bees has spread through regional Victoria. Varroa mites have been detected in beehives throughout the Gippsland region, putting apiarists on ...

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 ...

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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 deadly pathogen throughout their colonies. Between 60% to 70% of the ...

TWIN FALLS — Bees are not only amazing insects. They are vital to Kirk Tubbs’ business. “I really enjoy the bees, and we need them,” said Tubbs, owner of Tubbs Berry Farm in Twin Falls, who keeps ...

LONDON, June 7 (Reuters) - Parasitic mites have turbo-charged the spread of a virus responsible for a rise in honey bee deaths around the world, scientists said on Thursday. Sign up here. Bee ...