Public Enemy Number One for every beekeeper in America is the varroa destructor mite, or varroa for short. The mite jumped species from the Asian honeybee (Apis cerana) over to our Italian honeybee (Apis mellifera) in the 1960s and made its way to America in the late 1980s. American beekeeping has never been the same.
The Honey Bee Health Coalition exists to assist beekeepers to keep healthy bees. …