Two new options are being made available to beekeepers for control of the varroa bee mite after the approval of Acting Agriculture Minister Paul Swain was gazetted today. The products are formic acid ...

GE Varroa Control No Santa Claus For New Zealand Beekeepers. Genetically engineering varroa (Varroa destructor) mites to self destruct is no Christmas present for New Zealand’s beekeepers, according ...

It's a beekeeper's worst nightmare. The varroa destructor mite is only one millimetre long, but it holds the power to destroy bee colonies. Varroa was first detected in Australia in 2022 - something ...

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 ...

A destructive mite plaguing our beekeeping industry may have been building up home-grown resistance to a widely used chemical pesticide, a new study suggests. Flumethrin has long been a key tool for ...