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• NEW! Asian Hornets in EnglandAsian Hornets in England,  by Chantal Weller and Alan Smith, in Bee Culture, December 1, 2023
• NEW! RNAI Varroa Control, by Claire Concannon, in Bee Culture, November 28, 2023
• Yellow-legged Hornet in North America: What Does This Mean for Beekeepers? by Gard W. Otis, in Bee Culture, October 9, 2023
• Honey Bee Virus Medication, by Sustainability Times, in Bee Culture, October 6, 2023
• Found in Translation: Mite Drop, by Jay Evans, USDA Beltsville Bee Lab, in Bee Cutlure, October 1, 2023
• Yellow Legged Hornet, by Meredith Bauer, in Bee Culture, August 26, 2023
• Mites and Viruses, by USDA Agricultural Research Service, in Bee Culture, August 5, 2023
• Northern Giant Hornet Hunting, by Sharon Lucik, in Bee Culture, August 2, 2023
• Amiflex - New Varroa Control, in Bee Culture, April 29, 2023
• EPA Rules on Oxalic Acid and Glycerin, in Bee Culture,  March 23, 2023
•  How to Repel 7 Ruthless Animals That Eat Honey Bees, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, February 28, 2023
• Northern Giant Hornet, by Louise Franco, in Bee Culture, January 17, 2023
• First Honey Bee Vaccine, by Louise Franco, in Bee Culture, January 9, 2023
•   What Causes Colony Collapse Disorder in Honeybees?  by Maurice Hladik, in Backyard Beekeeping, December 9, 2022
•  Foulbrood Identificaton and Mitigation Guide, 2nd edition, Honey Bee Health Coalition, November 22, 2022
•  AFB Test, by La Trobe University, in Bee Culture, November 18, 2022
•  The Ultimate Yellowjacket Trap Is In Your Garbage, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, October 6, 2022
•  Recapping and Mite Removal Behavior in Cuba, by Anais Rodriguez Luis et al, in Bee Culture, September 27, 2022
• Virus Surveillance in Canada, by Nuria Morfin et al. in Bee Culture, September 16, 2022, reprinted from Journal of Apicultural Science, vol. 66, No 2 2022
•  Oxalic Acid Best Practices: Safely Treat for Varroa, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, September 2022
•  Tools for Varroa Management Guide, 8th edition,  by Honey Bee Health Coalition, in Bee Culture, August 22, 2022
• Controlling Varroa Mites with Oxalic Acid Drizzle Method, by David Bridgers, in Backyard Beekeeping, July 10, 2022
•  Conduct an Alcohol Wash for Varroa Mite Monitoring, by Kristi Cook, in Backyard Beekeeping, June 9, 2022
• Varroa Mite Treatments for a Healthy Hive, by Angi Schneider, in Backyard Beekeeping June 10, 2022
•  Red Plexiglass Lids for Small Hive Beetles, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, August 2, 2022.
• Irresistible Traps for Asian Giant Hornets, by Erin Garcia de Jesus, in Bee Culture, August 1, 2022
•  Colony Deaths -- Need More Control of Varroa Mites, by Chris Kurys, in Bee Culture, July 12, 2022
•  Black Bears in the Beeyard, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, June 2022
•  ARS Develops Varroa Resistatnt Honey Bees, by US Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, in Bee Culture, June 13, 2022
• Deformed Wing Virus Variant, by Martiin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, in Bee culture June 3, 2022
• When Yellowjacket Traps Don't Work, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, March 2022
•  Giant Hornets Before Honey Bee Attack, by Paige Embry, in Bee Culture, December 10, 2021
• Yellowjacket Wasps Are Not Honey Bees!by Anson Extension, North Carolina, in Bee Culture, October 1, 2021
•  Guide to Varroa Mite Controls for Commercial Beekeeping Operations, by Honey Bee Health Coalition, June 1, 2021
• What Does the New Ruling on Oxalic Acid in Honey Mean?  by Meghan Milbrath, in Bee Culture, March 12, 2021
• Rhubarb, Bees...and Varroa, by Jennifer Tucker, in Bee Space, March 11, 2017, reposted March 2021
• Honey Bee Nosema Parasite Hijacks Iron, RS News Service, in Bee Culture, February 23, 2021
•  It's a Yellow Jacket!! by Christine Barnett, in Bee Culture, November 24, 2020
• They're Here! Yellow Jacket Season Begins by Susan Chernak McElroy, in Keeping Backyard Bees, first posted August 9, 2016, reposted August 2020
• Effective management & Medications for Honey Bee Health in the U.S., by Honey Bee Health Coalition, July 2020
•  What Is American Foulbrood? by Jennifer Sartell, in Keeping Backyard Bees, first posted June 12, 2019, reposted June 2020
• Vespid-19: the Asian Giant Hornet in North America, by Rusty Burlew, Honey Bee Suite, May 30, 2020
• Trapping for Asian Giant Hornets, by Washington State Department of Agriculture, April 2020
• Asian Giant Hornet, Washington State University Extension, April 2020
• Tracking Asian Giant Hornet, by Washington State Department of Agriculture, in Bee Culture, April 7, 2020
• Research Brief: Common Bee Virus Causes Bees to Forage Prematurely, by Todd Ingstad, in News Dakota.com, March 3, 2020
• Mushroom Extract for Honey Bees, by Sierra Dawn McClain, in Bee Culture, March 16, 2020
•  It's "Common Knowledge" That Nosema Causes Dysentery...But Is It Actually True?, by Randy Oliver, in Scientific Beekeeping.com, first published in American Bee Journal, May 2019
• Repeat After Me: Nosema Does Not Cause Dysentery, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, February 14, 2020
• Why Did My Bees Die Video, by Michigan State University, first created 2018
• Disrupting One Gene Could Be First Step Toward Treating Honey Bee Parasite Nosema Ceranae, by Kim Kaplan, US Dept. of Agriculture, June 20, 2019
• Bees and Bee Pests and Diseases, by the Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, November 4, 2019
• Controlling Yellow Jackets with Fipronil, by Katharina Davitt, first posted September 22, 2018, updated November 2018
• Opposing Views of Mite Management: Data vs Date, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, November 30, 2019
• Strategies of a Honey Bee Virus, by EMBA Journal, in Science Daily, October 23, 2019
• Deformed Wing Virus Genetic Diversity in US Honey Bees Complicates Search for Remedies, by US Department of Agriculture, in Phys.Org, October 24, 2019
• Beekeepers Seek to Save Honeybees From a Colony-Invading Pest, by Paige Embry, in Undark Magazine Smithosonian.com, September 30, 2019
• New Insights Into Colony Collapse Disorder's Varroa Mite, in AgDaily, October 3, 2019
• Lessons From the Year of the Wasp, by Rusty Berlew, in Honey Bee Suite, September 3, 2019
• Breeders Toughen Up Bees to Resist Deadly Mites, by Erik Stokstad, in Science, July 25, 2019
• The Roles of Drifting and Robbing in Varroa Destructor Mite Infested Colonies, by David Thomas Peck and Thomas Dyer Seeley, in Bee Culture, July 5, 2019
• Mites and Insecticides Prove Killer Combo for Honey Bees, in SWI Swissinfor.ch Natural Science, June 4, 2019
• Disrupting One Gene Could Be First Step Toward Treating Honey Bee Parasite Nosema Cerane, by Kim Kaplan, in Bee Culture, June 28, 2019
• Robber Fly Dining on a Honey Bee, by Rusty Burlew, in Honey Bee Suite, June 25, 2019
• Diseases Affecting Honey Bees, by Karen Keb, in Keeping Backyard Bees, first published October 22, 2014, reprinted June 2019
• Honey Bee Health Coalition Releases Information to Help Beekeepers, Veterinarians Manage Foulbrood, by the Honey Bee Health Coalition, June 2019
•  Response of Adult Honey Bees Treated in Larval Stage with Prochloraz to Infection With Nosema Ceranae, by Uros Glavinic, et. al. in PeerJ, February 8, 2019
• Tools for Varroa Management, free download by the Honey Bee Health Coalition, 7th ed. 2018
• Global Honeybee Deaths Have Been Blamed on the Wrong Culprit All Along, by Peter Hess, in Inverse, January 29, 2019
• Students Create Probiotic to Help Honeybees Fight Deadly Fungus, by Andrew Lyle, in Bee Culture, February 8, 2019
• Viruses Associated with Varroa Mites Have Spilled Over into the Western Yellow Jacket, by Alan Harman, in Bee Culture, January 23, 2019
• Genome Published of the Small Hive Beetle, a Major Honey Bee Parasite, in Southeast AGNET Radio Network, December 19, 2018
• Will Mushrooms Be Magic for Threatened Bees? by Paul Stamets, in New York Times, Sunday Review, December 28, 2018
• World's First Insect Vaccine Could Help Bees Fight Off Deadly Disease, by Bill chappell, in NPR, December 7, 2018
•  Pathogenicity of Serratia marcescens Strains in Honey Bees, by Kasie Raymann, et al.  Journal of the American Society for Microbiology, 2018
• Varroa Alert, by Ramesh Sagili, Oregon State University, in Oregon State Beekeeping Association,   October 10, 2018
• The Signs of Mite Damage - How to Identify Progressed Varroosis?, by Garett Slater, in Bee Informed, September 26, 2018
• Using Oxalic Acid Vaporization When Brood is Present,  in Honey Bee Suite, July 28, 2018
• Dealing with Yellow Jackets, Wasps, and Other Honey Bee Predators, posted by BeeManiacs, July 13, 2018
• European Foulbrood: a Bacterial Disease Affecting Honey Bee Brood, in Extension, February 13, 2018
• They're Here! Yellow Jacket Season Begins, by Susan Chernak McElroy, in Keeping Backyard Bees, August 9, 2017
• 27 Unknown Bee Viruses Discovered, in Bee Culture, July 9, 2018
• New Cover Lets in Only Red Light and Keeps Small Hive Beetles Out, by Sydni Moore, in Bee Culture, May 12, 2018
• Cold Storage for Honey Bee Colonies Breaks the Brood Cycle and Makes Varroa Treatments More Effective, by Scott Weybright, in Bee Culture, May 10, 2018
• Varroa Mite Research, by  Samuel Ramsey, University of Maryland speaks about his thesis, which challenges conventional belief about how the Varroa mite feeds on its prey. 
• Honey Bee Viruses, the Deadly Varroa Mite Associates, research from Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN,  byPhilip A. Moore, Michael E. Wilson, and John A. Skinner, November 29, 2016
• Honey Bee Viral Prevalence Map, by Michael Wilson, in Bee Informed, January 9, 2018
• Randy's Varroa Model, by Randy Oliver, in Scientificbeekeeping.com,  January 8, 2018
•  Honey Bees Are Dying, by Noah Fortson, in Bee Culture, November 26, 2017
• Article about American Foulbrood, by Meredith Swett Walker, first printed in Journal of Insect Science, reprinted in Bee Culture, November 14, 2017
• Varroa Mite Management Options for Honey Bees, by Cookeville BeeKeepers, Putnam County, TN
• Wasps, Yellowjackets, Hornets; How to Tell the Difference Between the Stinging Wasps, by Debbie Hadley, in ThoughtCo, updated July 25, 2017
• Benefits for Beekeepers Battling Diseases, in Morning Ag Clips, August 29, 2017
•  Protecting Pollinators While Managing Pests, by Entomological Society of America, in Morning Ag Clips, August 9, 2017
•  Scientists Determine How to Control Parasite Without Harming Bees; Use of oxalic acid for treatment of varroa mites, by James Hakner, University of Sussex, January 4, 2016
• Neonics, Pollen, Fungicides, Dead Bees, All at Field Realistic Levels..., in Bee Cuture, July 11, 2017 
• Bees Are Starting to Evolve to Survive Destructive Varroa Mite, by Robin McConchie, in Bee Culture, July 11, 2017
• NY Honeybees Stung Hard by Varroa Mite, by David Nutt, in Bee Culture, July 5, 2017
•  Human Activity is a Key Driver In the Spread of Pathogens Afflicting the European Honeybee, by Etomology Today,  in Bee Culture, June 12, 2017
• How Varroa Mites Grow and Spread, by the Entomological Society of America, in Morning Ag Clips, May 10, 2017
• Get To Know Tropilaelaps Mites, Another Serious Parasite, by Josh Lancette in Bee Culture, May 14, 2017
• Sick Bees Explode Across the Landscape, in Bee Culture, May 5, 2017
• Treatment-Free Beekeeping and Varroa Mites, by Scott Offord, in Keeping Backyard Bees, April 27, 2017
•  Mite-Resistant Russian Honey Bees Might Not Prevent Varroa Infestations, by Meredith Swett Walker, in Entomology Today, April 11, 2017
• Aprocrita: a Bee Film (Wasps and Bees Fighting in Extremely Slow Motion), In Bee Culture, March 7, 2017
•  Honey Bee Mite Genome Sequenced to Aid in Fight Against Bee Colony Destruction, in Bee Culture, March  6, 2017
• Honeybees Outfitted With Tiny Microchips Reveal Possible Bizarre Effects of a Covert, Yet Deadly Virus, by Jen Viegas, in Bee Culture, February 18, 2017
• University of Wisconsin-Stout Professor, Students Identify Bacterium That May Kill Honey Bees, in Bee Culture,  January 3, 2017
• Honey Bee Viruses in Wild Bees, by Adam G. Dolezal, in PLOS One, November 10, 2016
• Yet Another Species of Varroa Mite Threatens European Honey Bees, in Bee Culture, December 3, 2016
• Ants in the Hive, by Jennifer Sartell, in  Keeping Backyard Bees, June 4, 2015
• The Transmission of Viruses Between Western and Eastern Honey Bees, published by International Bee Research Association, 2016
• The Buzz About Honey Bee Viruses: If You Wondered About Controling Varroa, Wonder No More..., by Laura M. Brutscher, in PLOS: Pathogens, August 18, 2016
• One Scientist's Crazy Bet to Save the Bees: Join Montsanto, by Hannah Nordhaus, in Wired, August 28, 2016
• Varroa Mites - A Community Problem, in Apis Information Research Center, 2016
• They're Here! Yellow Jacket Season Begins, by Susan Chernak McElroy, in Keeping Backyard Bees, August 9, 2016
• Western Yellow Jacket,  by John Kabashima, in University of California Nursery and Floriculture Alliance, February 28, 2016
• Developing Baits for the Control of Yellowjackets in California, by Michael K. Rust, Donald A. Reierson, and Rick Vetter,  Department of Entomology University of California, Riverside, 2010
• Approaches and Challenges to Managing Nosema Parasites in Honey Bee Colonies, in Bee Culture Magazine, August 14, 2016
• Cannibalizing Honey Bees Target Deadly Mite That Kills Colonies, by Hembree Brandon, in Delta Farm Press, August 2, 2016
• Here's the Colony-Killing Mistake Backyard Beekeepers Make, by Dan Gunderson, in MPR News, August 4, 2016
• Zombie Flies: a Potential New Threat to Beekeeping, by Jon Zawislak,  May 31, 2016
  
• Fighting the Good Fight for Varroa Resistance in Bees, by Pat Deavoll, in NZFarmer.co.nz, March 11, 2016 
• Parasite-Pathogen Partnership - Parasitic mites that transmit a honey bee-infecting virus may benefit from spreading the pathogen, by Ashley P. Taylor. TheScientist, March 7, 2016
• When Varroa Mites Hitch a Ride - Text and Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey, March 1, 2016
• Seaweeds Save Bees! Study of the effects of feeding seaweed for Nosema control, in Advance Science, August 24, 2015
• Nosema Ceranae Can Infect Honey Bee Larvae and Reduces Subsequent Adult Longevity, May 27, 2015 - New study on nosema and its impact on larval development
• Honeybee Diseases and Pests from the Washington State Beekeepers Association - Table (with photos) that describes the most common diseases and pests
• Nature's 'Medicine Cabinet' Fights Bee Disease, Yahoo News, February 17, 2015 - Nectar contains natural chemicals that may help fight parasite infection
• Parasitic Fly Could Explain Bee Die Off - Information about the so-called zombie fly
• Antimicrobial Activity - Antimicrobial activity of some Argentinean wild plant essential oils against Paenibacillus larvae, casual agent of American foulbrood (AFB)
• Mite Control - Mite control in Honey Bee Hives with Essential Oils & Formic Acid Fumigation
• American Foulbrood and Humans - American Foulbrood, CDC and humans
• Pesticides approved in Washington State to control or suppress tracheal mites and/or varroa mites in Honey Bee Colonies, Approved Washington State Pesticides
• Mite Away Quick Strips are now approved in all 50 States - American Bee Journal
  
• A Widely Used Bee Antibiotic May Harm Rather Than Help - American Bee Journal
• Improve Nutrition for Honey Bee Colonies to Stimulate Population Growth, Increase Queen Quality, and Reduce the Impact of Varroa Mite