IN DNR-Division of Entomology & Plant Pathology Report: Jarred Spokowsky, Nursery Inspector & Compliance Officer, encourages professionals and enthusiast beekeepers to check out the new Honey Bee ...

For our food this season, we have the bees, not pilgrims, to thank. Bees deserve credit for 80 percent of all plant pollination of plants, says Billy Hummer, whose 4-H beekeeping project begun in 1986 ...

Honey bee colonies around the world are at risk from a variety of threats, including pesticides, diseases, poor nutrition and habitat loss. Recent research suggests that one threat stands well above ...

The Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that threatens populations of honey bees worldwide, has long been thought to feed on blood like many of its mite and tick cousins. Findings of new research, ...

Since August, beekeepers around the town of Ribeauville in the region of Alsace have seen bees returning to their hives carrying unidentified colorful substances that have turned their honey unnatural ...

Among the many threats to honey bee colonies around the world, one stands alone: the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. For decades, researchers assumed that varroa mites feed on blood, like many of ...