Southern California is home to a flying black-and-yellow treasure. While commercial honeybee hives nationwide are collapsing ...

A non-native bee mite is causing the dramatic and sudden collapse of bee colonies across the country, but Penn State researchers believe they have found the combination of factors that triggers colony ...

In Southern California, some honeybees appear to be doing what many others across the country cannot: living with one of ...

A unique hybrid honeybee thriving in Southern California may hold a powerful clue to saving struggling bee populations. While ...

Scientists believe massive honey bee die-offs were caused by alarmingly high levels of viral infections from parasitic Varroa mites — the tiny arachnids had genetic resistance to the most common ...

In Southern California’s inland valleys, where colonies stay active year-round and Varroa destructor never gets a winter ...

A unique hybrid honeybee found only in Southern California has demonstrated the ability to survive and fend off deadly Varroa ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Dennis Arp downshifts his aging flatbed truck and slows to a crawl as he points across a grassy meadow near Mormon Lake. In years past, the field would have been carpeted with ...

KSU is working to educate beekeepers and experimenting with genetics. Bees are an important part of the ecosystem and essential to growing produce. But a small parasitic mite is putting bees at risk.

A reddish-black mite the size of a tiny crumb latches onto a honeybee, feeding on its fat body and transmitting diseases as the bee struggles to survive. The Varroa destructor, an aggressive mite, ...

FEW PESTS are more feared by apiarists than the aptly named Varroa destructor. This mite, originally a parasite of Apis cerana, the Asian honey bee, has plagued Apis mellifera, cerana’s western cousin ...

Whether you have a small garden in the backyard or hundreds of acres of farmland, there is one creature that keeps them ...