Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) are helping American beekeepers solve the mystery behind a widespread honey bee colony collapse and its ...

Dr. Sammy Ramsey examining a frame from one of his lab’s hives, looking for cells that might have baby bees developing inside. Credit: Santiago Flórez, Science ...

"Parasitic mites' biting rate may drive transmission of Deformed wing virus in honey bees." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 / 230119141525.htm (accessed February 13, 2026).

(Beyond Pesticides, July 10, 2024) An article last month in Entomology Today, a publication of the Entomological Society of America, highlights the important findings of a study published earlier this ...

Parasites have been attaching themselves to spiders for millennia. Given the large number of spiders and the wide variety of ...

It is believed that parasitic varroa mites may be one of the main causes of colony collapse disorder, which is decimating honeybee colonies around the world. There may be hope, however, as a new ...

Mange is a skin condition caused by a parasitic mite that can dig deep into an animal’s skin. Several mite species cause mange in wild and domesticated mammals, including foxes. The mite species that ...

Imagine discovering that your pearl necklace was actually a string of parasites gorging themselves on your bodily fluids. That’s what happened to a baby spider in Brazil. But instead of helping the ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...

The blood-sucking parasites, called varroa mites, live in beehives and attack the bees making them more vulnerable to diseases. Up to now beekeepers used pesticides to kill the parasites but the mites ...