More than 17,000 bee hives have been destroyed in NSW to control the spread of varroa mite A Hunter Valley queen bee breeder has had to euthanase his bees The movement of bees around Australia has ...

Where would we be (!) without bees? Bees are irreplaceable in our food chain. One out of every three bites of food that we eat have been made possible by bees’ activities – nuts, fruit, and vegetables ...

See here for an introduction to colony collapse disorder and part 1 of this two-part series. Africanized bees, more often known as "killer bees," have earned notoriety as opportunistic attackers of, ...

A new breed of honey bees, named “Pol-line”, has been selectively bred to identify and remove the Varroa mite from their colonies, which has been a major threat to honey bees for half a century. This ...

It has been just over a month now since varroa mite was detected in sentinel hives at the Port of Newcastle, with millions of bees in emergency zones since euthanased. Hive movement is now underway in ...

A new article presents the genome sequence and analysis of the honey bee parasitic mite T. mercedesae. Bee colonies are facing wide-spread devastation across the entire world. The research revealed ...

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, ...

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 ...

The parasitic bee mite Varroa destructor, which can mimic the chemical composition of its host's cuticle, is also capable of adapting this composition according to the bee species that it infests.

A northern NSW beekeeper worries the killer Varroa mite has been in Australia longer and spread further than previously thought. It comes as a huge amount of cash has been pledged to fight the ...

Beekeepers have been battling the varroa mite, which "devastates" the bees. But it has become immune to pesticides used to control it. ALISON WHITE finds out more. FIGHTING the varroa mite has become ...