News bee research News Bees@WUR 11 October 2022 New threats to bee populations - The varroa mite disease has been a threat to Dutch and European bee populations for years now. Thus far, two other potential destructive exotic bee... 19 May 2022 PCR test to detect the small hive beetle - Although the small hive beetle is no bigger than the size of a match head, its spread could pose a threat to food production of global magnitude,... 11 February 2022 Understanding social resilience essential to honeybee health - Why do some honeybee colonies collapse from environmental changes and stressor such as parasites, food deficiency, and diseases, while others can... 26 July 2021 Bee colony tested positive on American foulbrood - The National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for bee diseases in the Netherlands has identified an outbreak of the infectious bee disease American... 25 October 2019 Climate change brings invasive beetle closer to Dutch honey bee - New research has found that if climate change continues on its current path, it's likely that our honey bee will be facing a new threat sometime in... News 2014 - 2015 News from other platforms: Press COLOSS: The small hive beetle is in Europe to stay - 4 Nov 2014 (411,99 kb) New project aims to upload a honey bee's brain into a flying insectobot by 2015 - 4 July 2014 Twitter Whatsapp Linkedin Email