If the governments of Australia can invest millions into the honeybee industry, they surely have the resources to support ...

Australia is the only major honey-producing country that has so far managed to contain the spread of a mite fatal to bees. That distinction is now in peril. By Karan Deep Singh The first step is ...

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 ...

The traditional method of beekeeping – using heavy frames that hold the honey, and large extractors that do the harvesting – ...

Apiarists in Victoria are wondering how they will keep their bees fed during winter after bushfires two years in a row render ...

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 ...

On the rooftop of the Shangri-La hotel in The Rocks, there are 250,000 bees considering their next mission to pollinate ...

There are fears that Australia's bees, which help pollinate up to $4 billion worth of crops each year, may be at risk of exposure to a dangerous mite that could devastate the fruit and vegetable ...

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 ...

NEIL LIVINGSTONE, BEEKEEPER: The ultimate is to get rid of the flaming problem and stay as clean as we can for as long as we can. I'm only hoping and praying that the horse hasn’t bolted. CORMAC ...

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 ...