New research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service sheds light on the causes behind the ...

A proposal in the California Legislature would pay for more research to save honey bees, but it could be a tough sell amid a ...

Honey bees are under attack from tiny, eight-legged parasitic mites. What can California do to protect bee colonies and its ...

While Asian honey bees had hundreds of years to adapt to the mites, scientists have found that it may not take that long for bees to develop natural resistance behaviors. A decade ago, a group of ...

Lifting up the hood of a Beewise hive feels more like you're getting ready to examine the engine of a car than visit with a ...

Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom, a Stockton Democrat and co-author of a bill to protect bee health, says the measure is critical to safeguarding California jobs and food production.

A recently detected pest in the Aussie bush may be microscopic in size, but its impact on native bees and Queensland ...

Killing the mites with pesticides is complex: The mites have grown resistant to some chemicals, so beekeepers have to routinely swap out different pesticides while trying to avoid contaminating the ...

Smoky skies are forcing honeybees to hunker down, impacting foraging and potentially reducing honey flow for beekeepers in ...

A Mississippi State University expert says he has no evidence that Africanized honey bees are established in Mississippi ...

Besides the mites, honey bees are threatened by pesticides, habitat loss and a lack of food and nutrition. Each hazard presents its own problems, but the mites in particular have vexed beekeepers.