honey

Brandon Hopkins, a WSU honey bee researcher, tells how bees around the world are turning nectar from flowers into sweet, golden honey.

If there are still a few uncrossed names on your holiday shopping list this season, WSU’s entomology and pottery clubs may have just the right gift.  From Thursday, Dec. 6 to Friday, Dec. 7, both clubs will be displaying items for purchase on the Pullman campus.       The Entomology Club will be selling jars of […]

Varroa desturctor. The name evokes evil entities and comic book mayhem. But there is nothing funny about the Varroa honey bee mite. The tiny beast — an inadvertent stowaway on bees smuggled into the U.S. sometime before 1987 — now infests honey bee colonies across most of North America and is responsible for widespread destruction […]