Enter the Russian honey bee. As a member of the Russian Honey Bee Breeders Association, Conlon began introducing honey bees from Russia’s Primorsky region into his hives 14 years ago.

These Russian bees groom themselves, biting and crushing the mites. They also have a prevalent genetic trait called varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH), ...

WASHINGTON — While Virginia beekeepers lost almost 60 percent of their colonies this past winter, the bees kept thriving at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. The 25 bee hives at the historic site ...

Bee-loud news buzzed from Moscow last week. Soviet scientists reported that they had found a way to make bees produce honey heavy with vitamins or with such medicines as quinine, sulfidin.

Wild bees and Russian bees might be able to help. The honeybee Apis mellifera (above) is native to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Now one of the most high-profile bees in North America, ...