Christian W. W. Pirk received funding from University of Pretoria and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free riders” attracted to ...

State officials have made the first known detection in Alaska of the small hive beetle, an "economically significant" pest of honey bees, according to an alert published in late September. An Alaska ...

State officials have made the first known detection in Alaska of the small hive beetle, an “economically significant” pest of honey bees, according to an alert published in late September. An Alaska ...

Beekeepers and researchers will welcome the unveiling of the small hive beetle's genome by scientists. The small hive beetle (SHB) is a major parasite problem of honey bees for which there are few ...

It's hard to hoodwink a jailer, but incarcerated beetles fool their honeybee guards into feeding them, new research shows1. Small hive beetles storm honeybee hives to plunder pollen, honey and even ...

South African honeybees adopt a strict incarceration policy to control a troublesome hive parasite currently terrorizing their European cousins 1. Small hive beetles (Aethina tumida), native to South ...

KAPAAU — Thanks to the small operations of beekeepers like Dawn Barnett and her daughter Mariah, Hawaii is having a small bee revival. New ways of maintaining hives and fighting the pests plaguing ...

Cornelia Sattler receives funding from the Ian & Shirley Norman Foundation to develop non-chemical varroa control methods. Théotime Colin receives funding from the Australian Research Council, through ...

A new beehive system made up of a series of hexagonal prisms may be just what your bees need. The Honeycomb Hives system is designed to tackle bee colony losses by making hives which apparently keep ...