Fall is here, and the foraging is not easy. Angry bees are swarming all over me — flying into the mesh covering my face, landing all over the rest of my head-to-ankle, borrowed, brilliant-white bee ...

EAST CONCORD, N.Y. (WIVB) — Thousands of honeybees are in and out of hives right here, busy working after having a rough summer and now, having to prepare for the cold winter ahead. “It’s up and down, ...

Cornelia Sattler receives funding from the Ian & Shirley Norman Foundation to develop non-chemical varroa control methods. Théotime Colin receives funding from the Australian Research Council, through ...

They analyzed bees from the hives to check for the genetic signature of the Varroa mites and five viruses including DWV, which had been associated with sick colonies before. If all of the viruses were ...

Jonathan Garaas has learned a few things in three seasons of backyard beekeeping: Bees are fascinating. They're complicated. And keeping them alive is not easy. Every two weeks, the Fargo, N.D., ...

Australia's honeybees are facing an exceptional crisis. The tiny but devastating foreign pest Varroa destructor is steadily spreading across the country. The mite feeds on baby bees (larvae), ...