THAT BEE BLOG

As I have mentioned in previous posts, the Varroa mite is a huge problem for honey bee colonies. However, bees can overtime become...

In every population of mites there is a small percentage (around 5% to 20%) that are infertile and an even more that do reproduce, but...

Honey bee colonies can be considered super organisms this is because they consist of a vast number of individuals that work together for...

Considering the current pandemic, I thought it would be interesting to look at how honey bees prevent diseases spreading in their own...

Whilst I am interested in all things bees, my main work is looking at the ecto-parasitic mite of honey bees known by the Latin name...

Just kidding bees don't have covid but they can get viruses too. You might have heard that covid-19 is an RNA virus. RNA is similar to...

If you are a beekeeper, you have probably seen something like this in your hives: Worker bees create small holes in caps of worker cells,...

Pollinator! And as everyone knows bees are amazing pollinators. Usually when we think of bees we picture the hive dwelling Honey Bees...