A new way to lessen damage from small hive beetles in honey bee colonies has been developed. Small hive beetles (Aethina tumida) began appearing in U.S. hives during the past 15 to 20 years and now ...

Christian W. W. Pirk received funding from University of Pretoria and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free riders” attracted to ...

It's hard to hoodwink a jailer, but incarcerated beetles fool their honeybee guards into feeding them, new research shows1. Small hive beetles storm honeybee hives to plunder pollen, honey and even ...

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 ...

BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND, December 20, 2018--Beekeepers and researchers will welcome the unveiling of the small hive beetle's genome by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their colleagues.

Marcus Foth receives research funding from the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme, and the Australian Government's Low Income Energy Efficiency Program. He is a member of ...