Dan Long handles his beehives with care. When he needs to harvest honey or search for a queen bee, he might wear a full ...

The last two months was the beginning of the beekeeping season, but April is the heart of beekeeping in North Carolina.

Australia's honeybees are facing an exceptional crisis. The tiny but devastating foreign pest Varroa destructor is steadily ...

S ammy Ramsey was having a hard time getting information. It was 2019, and he was in Thailand, researching parasites that kill bees. But Ramsey was struggling to get one particular Thai beekeeper to ...

Australia's honeybees are facing an exceptional crisis. The tiny but devastating foreign pest Varroa destructor is steadily spreading across the ...

infection, a frame from each colony containing brood and nurse bees was shaken into a plastic bin ... Colonies were founded on either new foundation or gamma irradiated comb. Chalkbrood sampling was ...

Last season’s comb remains in the frame at 5-Star ... One way keepers check for mites is by inspecting the “brood,” or the place where the bees raise their young. The mites lay eggs in ...

Not only are honeybees vital for facilitating plant reproduction through pollination, but they are also very skilled builders. These insects have perfected the art of construction, creating one of ...

Their captive diet is similar to the foods that mealworms and super worms eat. In the wild, wax worms also feed on the wax that bees use to build their honeycomb. To become full-grown adults, wax ...