MEBANE, N.C. (WGHP) — The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Pollinator Center is working with a beekeeper to test honey and hives for mites that are harming the bee population.
Experts say these mites are becoming resistant to the pesticides beekeepers use, putting their colonies at risk. Now, they’re learning how to breed bees to naturally fight off these mites.
Mite Fight
UNCG’s Pollinator Center is partnering with King Cobra Apiary in Mebane to find a way to protect local bee colonies from Varroa destructor mites.
“As many people know, we’ve had a lot of colony losses, especially over the last five or ten years in the United States,” Director of the UNCG Plant and Pollinator Center Kaira Wagoner said…