AgriFutures Australia has welcomed Luke Evans as the new Program Manager for the Honey Bee & Pollination Program, bringing a ...

Aussies are being warned of soaring grocery prices as a deadly bee parasite has been detected in hives across South Australia ...

Four swarms of Asian bees found in Cairns, Australia have been cleared of carrying the dreaded Varroa destructor mite, but the intruders themselves could pose the beginning of a serious threat to ...

Beekeepers say the escalating cost of pollinating crops will be passed onto consumers as the industry battles a devastating ...

A deadly parasite that infests beehives and kills honey bees has spread through regional Victoria. Varroa mites have been detected in beehives throughout the Gippsland region, putting apiarists on ...

In a groundbreaking study, 5,000 honey bees in Australia are set to be fitted with tiny sensors in an effort to better understand Colony Collapse Disorder. The 2.5mm by 2.5mm Radio Frequency ...

Resistance to synthetic antibiotics poses a critical global health challenge. Various European honeybee and other natural products have been proposed as novel therapeutic agents to address this ...

Australia is exterminating tens of millions of bees in a bid to ward off a varroa mite plague. At least 600 hives containing 30,000 bees each have been destroyed, The New York Times reported. Varroa ...

Patrick O'Connor receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Agrifutures Australia and State Governments. A tiny parasitic mite that lives on the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) has ...

Beekeepers are being urged to monitor their hives more frequently after further detections of the deadly bee parasite varroa mite in South Australia.

Harvesting beehive honey is generally a time-consuming, somewhat stinging process. Now it could be just a matter of turning a lever and watching the sweet stuff flow out. The “Flow Hive”–developed by ...