A new breed of honey bees, named “Pol-line”, has been selectively bred to identify and remove the Varroa mite from their colonies, which has been a major threat to honey bees for half a century. This ...

Where would we be (!) without bees? Bees are irreplaceable in our food chain. One out of every three bites of food that we eat have been made possible by bees’ activities – nuts, fruit, and vegetables ...

EPA registration paves the way for beekeepers to combat a critical threat to pollinator health BOSTON, Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenLight Biosciences ("the Company" or "GreenLight Bio") today ...

Brandon Hopkins, left, an entomologist with Washington State University, talks with Joel Smith, co-owner of Belliston Brothers Apiary of Burley, Idaho, outside a winter storage facility they are using ...

KSU is working to educate beekeepers and experimenting with genetics. Bees are an important part of the ecosystem and essential to growing produce. But a small parasitic mite is putting bees at risk.

Sabrina Rondeau received funding from the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ...

The parasitic mite Varroa destructor (varroa) is generally agreed to be the greatest threat facing honey bees worldwide. Despite much research, losses continue due to lack of effective control ...

RNA interference – RNAi – functions specifically to silence, or deactivate, genes. Among other applications, it promises to be groundbreaking as a way to treat infections of bees by a commercially ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April, 30, 2019) According to the latest blog post from pesticide industry propagandist Henry I Miller, the pollinator crisis either a) is not occurring; b) is not a problem; or, c ...