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 ...

Getting ready for winter in this area we should install entrance reducers and check for food stores and make sure that our ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A couple of years back, the big ‘Save the Bees’ campaign received national attention and the hivemind had its mind on hives. The campaign’s main focus was colony collapse — ...

A dozen fifth-graders peer at a blown-up microscope image of a Varroa mite. “It’s not a pretty thing,” master beekeeper Carmen Weiland tells them. The mite has a bulbous body, eight segmented legs ...

Derrick Maness started beekeeping at the age of 14 with Paul Limbach at Western Colorado Honey. Now, many years later, Maness is the owner of Colorado Mountain Honey and manages 75 different hive ...

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, ...

NEW LONDON - A chilly northwest wind was blowing Tuesday as Tim and Julie Rittenhouse medicated and fed some of the 2,000 honeybee colonies they maintain at 65 different locations in Kandiyohi, ...

Varroa destructor mites in a petri dish under a microscope after being exposed to the new strain of metarhizium fungi. Credit: Washington State University Varroa destructor mites in a petri dish under ...

Beekeepers are being urged to monitor their hives more frequently after further detections of the deadly bee parasite varroa ...