A lab-made diet sparked a 15-fold boom in bee reproduction, pointing to a possible solution for collapsing colonies.

Scientists have created a new food source for honey bees that can sustain colonies without natural pollen, improving their ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford could provide a cost-effective and sustainable solution to help tackle the ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, University of Greenwich, and the ...

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 ...

Feeding bees honey bought from a grocery store "carries a very high risk of spreading diseases such as [American foulbrood], which would mean certain death for a bee colony and likely many more ...

It may sound strange, but there is a lot we can learn from how insects go about their business. As you probably already know, bees produce honey using the nectar from plants, storing it in their bee ...

Varroa destructor feeds primarily on honey bee fat body tissue and not hemolymph. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818371116 ...

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 ...

A bee yard surrounded by a forest does not yield a good honey crop. Dense shade from a conifer forest does not allow growth of sun loving nectar plants.