A new way to lessen damage from small hive beetles in honey bee colonies has been developed. Small hive beetles (Aethina tumida) began appearing in U.S. hives during the past 15 to 20 years and now ...

The bee industry is buzzing about a new device designed to save lives in the beehives. Many beekeepers across the country are losing their bee hives to the small hive beetle, which can overwhelm the ...

JACKSON, Miss. | There is worldwide concern about the decline in populations of honeybees that not only provide honey but pollination for many crops. Insects are responsible for pollinating about a ...

Just in time for Halloween! The newest uninvited guest (pest) in our hives is the small hive beetle (SHB), a nasty little beetle that eat… Just in time for Halloween! The newest uninvited guest (pest) ...

The honeybee's alarm signal may not only bring help, but also attract the small hive beetle. Now, researchers have found that small hive beetles can detect some alarm pheromones at levels below that ...

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 ...

Dead-outs: that dreaded event in a beekeeper’s world when an entire colony of bees dies in the hive. It was a heartbreaking day in mid-December when we found that one of our colonies had died out.

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 ...

Despite the cooler weather, Chris Tejcek's small-scale permaculture farm is usually buzzing with bees throughout winter. But this year, he has struggled to find even one at his property at Beechwood, ...

Marcus Foth receives research funding from the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme, and the Australian Government's Low Income Energy Efficiency Program. He is a member of ...