Honeybees in a Mite More Than Trouble. Parasites, an Exodus of Apiarists and Budget Cuts Imperil Vital Insect. By Adrian Higgins. May 14, 2002 at 1:00 a.m. EDT ...

Bee samples from 300 hives statewide show 40 percent had tracheal mites, 48 percent had a nosema parasite and 85 percent had varroa mites. The high varroa presence is not a surprise because it is ...

The dreaded Africanized honey bee—better known as the “killer bee”—may be buzzing slightly northward. Entomologists believe that an Africanized swarm was responsible for an attack in ...

“Compared to the tracheal mites, which were controlled much easier and lived in the trachea of the bee, the [colonies of] varroa mites can grow as large as a nine-inch dinner plate. ...

In 1922, shortly after tracheal mites were identified as the likely cause of bee kills on England's Isle of Wight, the United States restricted the importation of live honey bees.

Bob Arnold's bees move fast in the warm weather, buzzing from flower to flower and then back to frames of honeycomb. The insects' hairy little bodies are covered in pollen as they gorge themselves ...