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 ...

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 ...

Maybe you’ve never heard of it, but this past weekend, some insect-infatuated communities around the country celebrated National Honey Bee Day. Originally established as “Honey Bee Awareness Day” by ...

FARGO-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.The Fargo attorney lost hives in ...

GREENSBORO — Honeybees pollinate crops from blueberries in Maine to almonds in California and are one of the most important pollinators in North Carolina. As a result, a global decline in honeybee ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A recent national survey of beekeepers showed a significant loss rate of colonies, which may impact the future of commercial beekeeping. The annual survey from the Bee ...

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa — "It happens that beekeeping begins as a hobby and then grows," says Edwin Geels. "This has happened to more than one good beekeeper." He began his first colony in 2003, and over ...

It is believed that parasitic varroa mites may be one of the main causes of colony collapse disorder, which is decimating honeybee colonies around the world. There may be hope, however, as a new ...

PIRSA says there is a chance the deadly parasite remains in the state where it was detected for the first time earlier this month.

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 ...

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 ...

Patrick O'Connor receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Agrifutures Australia and State Governments. A tiny parasitic mite that lives on the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) has ...