News bee research News Bees@WUR 09 July 2024 Dutch winter bee mortality rate above 20% - In the winter of 2023 - 2024, 21.2% of the Dutch population of honeybee colonies died. While this mortality rate is lower than that of the previous... 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... 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