The pests and predators that attack honeybee colonies, apart from varroa. The guides cover small hive beetle, wax moth in live hives and stored comb, ants, and bears and raccoons. They also cover hornets and wasps such as the Asian hornet and the European beewolf, bee-eating birds, the death’s-head hawkmoth, the parasitic fly behind so-called zombie bees, and the emerging threat of Tropilaelaps mites. Each explains how to recognize the problem and what protection actually works.
Varroa has its own section, Varroa Monitoring & Treatment Strategy, and brood and adult diseases are covered in Hive Disease Diagnosis & Pathogen Differentiation.
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Narrow entrances, strong colonies and a clean apiary do most of the work against yellow jackets. Why sweet baits catch honey bees, and why the common heptyl butyrate lure misses eastern and German yellowjackets.
A University of the Balearic Islands team achieved Europe's first confirmed eradication of an established Asian hornet population, earning the 2026 Golden Bee Award.
Female European beewolf wasps hunt honeybees to provision their nests, then protect their brood with bacteria they cultivate themselves.
Tropilaelaps mites are spreading westward from Asia and researchers increasingly call them a bigger long-term threat than Varroa. Here's what's actually known so far.
A skull-marked moth raids beehives at night by chemically disguising itself as a honeybee — and usually gets away with it.
The colorful European bee-eater specializes in catching bees on the wing, and in some regions honeybees make up nearly half its diet. Here's what the research actually shows about the impact on apiaries.
A parasitic fly called Apocephalus borealis lays eggs inside honey bees, driving infected bees to leave the hive at night and die near lights. Here's what's actually known about the phenomenon nicknamed "zombie bees."
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