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When honey bees get sick, their beekeepers turn to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis lab for help. That crucial resource is now disappearing.

A tiny mite has been killing honey bees all around the world, and will inevitably reach Australian shores. So what is this destructive mite, and what we can do to protect Australian honey bees? The Varroa…

Bees might not be able to survive inside a person’s eye, but they can be drawn to disgusting food sources.

Research shows that managed honey bees may pose a threat to free roaming honey bee populations.

The European Union has just banned three pesticides thought to affect the learning behaviour of bees. The two-year ban, which takes effect in December, is in response to a dramatic drop in bee numbers…

Nutrition is another factor - in addition to pesticides and bee disease - that has led to the dwindling of the global bee population.

Life in a honey bee hive is all about cooperating for the collective good.

Search for information on ‘self-medication,’ and you’ll likely find descriptions of the myriad ways that we humans use drugs to solve problems. In fact, the consumption of biologically active molecules…

Pollination by commercially raised bees is important to a variety of crops but none more than California almonds. In turn, beekeepers depend on them.

Scientists don’t know enough about the food habits of less social bees. Here’s why that urgently needs to change.