Neonicotinoids are the most widely used insecticides in the world. They are applied to a broad range of food, energy, and ornamental crops, and used in domestic pest control.

As they finish harvesting this year’s crop, Canadian honey producers say they are being stung with prices that have fallen by about 50 per cent since a year ago, a devastating blow that some are blaming on a global glut of what they say is cheaper, low-quality Chinese exports.

Why are Capilano Honey’s owner Hive and Wellness Australia deliberately concealing the fact that they are selling the 90% imported Sunny Flo Honey?

The concentrations of sugars were investigated in the Apis mellifera carnica drone brood in successive development stages. These stages are from the newly hatched larvae to the freshly emerged imago.

Recently, alongside novel compounds to defeat the pest, lithium chloride has been found to be effective.

Varroa destructor sucks the blood from both the adults and the developing brood, weakening and shortening the life span of bees.

A population of European honey bees surviving Varroa destructor mite infestation in Sweden for over 10 years without treatment.

Bees, these extraordinary creatures that have inhabited the Planet for over 100 million years, are the common thread that tells the story of various ecological challenges.

Pollen might be contaminated by multiple pesticides representing a risk for long-term contamination of honeybees when collected. Standardized methodology to assess the effects of pesticide mixtures under field conditions is lacking.