Every year, up to half the honeybee colonies in the U.S. die. Varroa mites, the bees’ ghastly parasites, are one of the main culprits. After hitching a ride into a hive, a mite mom hides in a ...

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The fast-spreading parasite, varroa mite, is expected to wipe out half of the ACT's 6,000 bee hives within two years, putting local fruit and vegetable crops at risk. Varroa mites are 1 to 2 ...

THE movement of beehives is the subject of a research project to help Australia’s horticulture industries plan for the possible arrival of the Varroa mite. The Australian almond industry is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The deadly honey bee parasite, varroa mite, has been detected in South Australia for the first time. The state was the fifth jurisdiction to detect the pest after a discovery was made in the Riverland ...

A honey bee-killing parasite has been detected in the state's Fleurieu Peninsula and at a second location in the Limestone Coast. The latest discovery follows last week's detection at Salt Creek.

After struggling through drought and low prices, South Australia's beekeepers are heading into a key pollination season anxious about the potential spread of the bee-killing varroa mite. There has ...

Cooper Schouten receives funding from The Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research and is a Member of the NSW Apiarists Association and QLD Beekeepers Association. The federal ...

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