Because something else is already there waiting to gobble them up: dust mites. And the longer you wait between washes, the more food these critters will have and the more they'll procreate and ...

Honey bees pollinate $4.6 billion worth of food in Australia, but with the inevitable spread of a parasitic mite and the eventual predicted wipe-out of the feral bee population, farmers are ...

Mites can have both positive and negative effects economically. Some parasitic species can cause serious losses in food production, while predatory mites have been successfully used to target pests in ...

“Each needs a different microbe and mite that needs to get to it,” she says. Which is why the partners are converting a store room into an ageing room instead. “We will be lining the room ...

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If the mites continue to spread, it could cost the honey production industry alone $70 million ($48m, £39m) a year, he says. About a third of Australia's food production relies on bee pollination ...