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 ...

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 ...

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 serious honey bee mite has been discovered at a bee farm in Hawaii. Varroa mites were detected on bees in three of the abandoned hives and reported to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture. The ...

Tests with fake bee larvae reveal that a “vampire” mite attacking honeybees may not be so much a bloodsucker as a fat slurper. The ominously named Varroa destructor mite invaded North America in the ...

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 ...

Barbara has written professionally for more than two decades. In the past five years, she has specialized in creating real estate and home improvement content. Besides writing for Forbes Home, she ...

Sabrina Rondeau received funding from the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ...

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 ...

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, ...

KSU is working to educate beekeepers and experimenting with genetics. Bees are an important part of the ecosystem and essential to growing produce. But a small parasitic mite is putting bees at risk.