The NSW south coast's only queen bee breeder is using artificial insemination to breed honey bee colonies that are resistant ...

Footing extra costs for varroa mite treatment, labour and colony losses in managed hives could have flow-on effects on produce availability and prices, according to Duxton Bees managing director ...

Credit: Santiago Flórez, Science Friday “The name for this parasite is a very Transformer-y sounding name, but … these Varroa destructor mites have earned this name. It’s not melodramatic by any means ...

A team of 48 specialised Varroa Trainers have been upskilled and appointed across every Australian state and territory to help beekeepers prepare for ...

Honey bees pollinate $4.6 billion worth of food in Australia, but with the inevitable spread of a parasitic mite and the eventual predicted wipe-out of the feral bee population, farmers are ...

The tiny varroa mite can kill bee colonies by feasting on them and transmitting viruses Millions of Australian bees are in "lockdown" and thousands will be destroyed after a deadly parasite was ...

Varroa mites are present in every honeybee ... If the brood keeps growing after a mite treatment, the mites will keep reproducing too—and the beekeeper might not know it's happening unless ...

University of Hawaii Varroa mites (red spot ... an increase recently in bee-keepers not having to treat [the mites] with chemical treatments." "Pressure" from the mites was driving healthy ...

Parasitic varroa mites were partially to blame ... Although he’s confident he’ll have low losses this year as he upped his mite treatments, he doesn’t know what his future in the industry ...