The bee industry is buzzing about a new device designed to save lives in the beehives. Many beekeepers across the country are losing their bee hives to the small hive beetle, which can overwhelm the ...

The discovery of a small hive beetle in a beehive in the north-west of Tasmania has rocked the state's honey bee industry. The small hive beetle has been found in a beehive at Devonport Port with a 15 ...

The honeybee's alarm signal may not only bring help, but also attract the small hive beetle. Now, researchers have found that small hive beetles can detect some alarm pheromones at levels below that ...

Biosecurity SA plant health operations manager Nick Secomb said the small hive beetle was “a really new pest for South Australia and certainly not widespread”. “As far as we’re aware, it’s really ...

Blister beetles are born with a mission: Infiltrate a bee’s nest. And they waste no time getting to work. The larvae emerge from their eggs by the hundreds, climb the nearest blade of grass and ...

The president of the New South Wales Apiarists Association has renewed a call for the Federal Government to investigate how a pest that affects the bee industry found its way into Australia. Bill ...

This comes ahead of research field trials attempting to trap the pest and reduce its spread. The first incursion of SHB in Australia was detected in 2002 and has since cost the local beekeeping ...

Tasmania's chief plant protection officer says its too early to tell whether bee hives could be destroyed in the wake of a single small hive beetle being found in Devonport. I'm excited to have joined ...

A LEADING bee expert said a non-native species of beetle poses major threat to the Philippine bee industry and called on the government to strengthen quarantine and other biosecurity measures to ...

Researchers found significant increases in floral abundance and wild bee diversity in outbreak-affected forests, compared to similar, undisturbed forest. When southern Rocky Mountain forests are ...