Jörg Mayer, DVM, MS, DABVP, DECZM, DACZM, discusses parasite awareness and control in a dvm360 interview at the 2025 Veterinary Meeting & Expo ...

“These losses are severe, broad, and may impact food security through inadequate pollination services. Survey results are ...

Honey bee mortality can be significantly reduced by ensuring that treatments for the parasitic Varroa mite occur within ...

guessed the pervasive varroa mite. “[My bees] did the same few years back,” she wrote in an email. “Mites were crazy this fall.” Varroa mites are present in every honeybee hive across the ...

Another reason for my bet: Mites are specialists that occupy every conceivable niche, including the trachea of bees, the shafts of feathers, the anuses of turtles, the stink glands of bugs ...

Most honeybees in the U.S. today are of Italian heritage and vulnerable to a pest called the varroa mite. But Russian bees are more resistant to it, and backyard beekeepers have had success with them.

"They're trying really hard to come up with biotechnical methods for making brood breaks [removing bee larvae and pupae from a hive to prevent varroa mite reproducing] and for trapping mites.

The deadly bee parasite, varroa destructor, was found at Boggabilla in New South Wales. It is the closest the parasite has been found to the Queensland border. An outbreak of the world's deadliest ...

Honey bee mortality can be significantly reduced by ensuring that treatments for the parasitic Varroa mite occur within specific timeframes, a new study reveals. Honey bee mortality can be ...